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Toes , to technology in "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

Oh wow, that needs to be off by default like yesterday. šŸ’€

PassingThrough , to technology in "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

Is there a list anywhere of this and other settings and features that could/should certainly be changed to better Firefox privacy?

Other than that Iā€™m not sure Iā€™m really going to jump ship. I think Iā€™m getting too old for the ā€œclunkinessā€ that comes with trying to use third party/self hosted alternatives to replace features that ultimately break the privacy angle, or to add them to barebones privacy focused browsers. Containers and profile/bookmark syncing, for example. But if thereā€™s a list of switches I can flip to turn off the most egregious things, that would be good for today.

mozz ,
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Just use LibreWolf; Iā€™m not up to speed on this stuff but I more or less believe the hype that it will protect my privacy simply by taking Firefox and adding an ad blocker for me and disabling all the shit for me

swayevenly , to technology in "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

Anyone see the option to turn it off on Android phones?

jabathekek ,
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IMO itā€™s the option in Data collection called Marketing data. It doesnā€™t say itā€™s PPA outright, but it sounds like the same sort of thing. ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ

reversebananimals ,

Itā€™s a desktop only feature, it hasnā€™t been built into mobile I believe

PenisWenisGenius , to technology in "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

Well shit. Firefox is still better because it doesnā€™t have the backdoor Google uses to catch and then block people using adblock on YouTube. For now.

KingThrillgore , to technology in "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again
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Itā€™s all on Ladybird now.

NerdyPopRocks , to technology in "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

Does Firefox explain what measures theyā€™ve taken to protect their aggregation servers? If so, this is a perfectly fine and practical method for privacy preservation

NerdyPopRocks , (edited )

Looks like they are using a Prio based protocol. If they are using Prio2+, I think this article is likely overblown. EDIT: I mixed up my sources - Mozilla tested Prio for telemetry collection. They are using a system called IPA for ads, and I donā€™t know whether there are formal guarantees for this system

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