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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[+] -8 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

More nonsense. If you've ever used a text browser, or a browser without javascript enabled, the vast majority of websites still work fine (Basically just mainstream social media garbage / fascist platforms that aren't worth your time anyways breaks). If advertisers want to break their sites on non-compliant browsers, it's as simple as changing your useragent and they have no way of knowing, assuming javascript is disabled. This is pointless hypothetical FUD with little existing precedence (Only thing I can think of is Apple blocking linux useragents that one time) so you can find a way to not hold Mozilla accountable for being a shit platform that's supporting ad culture again.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    it's as simple as changing your useragent and

    Good luck getting the average user to bother with that. But oh wait, the average user would not turn off javascript either, because dealing with that all day is very bothersome. How do I know? Been driving umatrix in whitelisting mode for years. I've got used to it, but every time someone sees that I need to reload sites multiple times to unbreak them they are visibly and audibly disgusted. What's even worse is that they connect this with the fact that I use firefox, even after I tell them this is a fucking addon, and they think Firefox is like that by default.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    More nonsense.

    Is everything you put up to address my comment.

    I did use a text browser. But you apparently fail their purpose. I pipe <html/> into it so that I can't be fooled by such propaganda-spitting guys.. (...).

    ... fascist platforms that aren't ...

    You implied bad about me, so I reason this post with that.

    ... changing your useragent ...

    Sounds harder than triggering a flag for a feature which aims at serving you, the user.

    Your next sentence, minus the next propaganda, makes me wonder:

    This is pointless hypothetical FUD with little existing precedence (...) so you can find a way to not hold Mozilla accountable for being a shit platform that's supporting ad culture again.

    By "This" you mean the topic? I already prompted you my point of view; You didn't address it. You falsely accuse Mozilla of pushing advertisements down ones throat. Obv. wrong. This undermines my point which I made in order to aid your shortcomings I saw.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You implied bad about me, so I reason this post with that.

    Not at all. I was referring to Xshitter and Facebook. I wasn't trying to imply you were a fascist. Sorry if it seemed that way.

    Sounds harder than triggering a flag for a feature which aims at serving you, the user.

    Clarify?

    You falsely accuse Mozilla of pushing advertisements down ones throat.

    My argument in this thread was that Mozilla is supporting ad culture, though I suppose serving targeted ads regardless of anonymity can still be considered "pushing advertisements down ones throat". Regardless, pocket already exists to push ads down my throat, should I wish it to ;)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Clarify?

    You suggested that one can change user agents, once (and here is room for debate) firefox is not working properly. At least this is what I carry around from our convo!

    Regardless,

    Yeah, because you still managed to propagate assumptions which may be hard to reason about objectively.

    pocket already exists to push ads down my throat, should I wish it to ;)

    That's about available sources. But I agree that just 5% of articles within their topics do not force cookies. If Mozilla would reside in the EU Pocket would have much higher quality (since I think to recall these sources are hand picked).

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