Föderation EN Fr 12.07.2024 12:49:25
#Firefox 128 finally landed in #Debian unstable. On first launch, before opening anything else, remembered to go to Settings disable the “privacy-preserving ad measurements.
Go die in a fire, advertising industry.
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Föderation EN Fr 12.07.2024 13:44:12
@oblomov My initial gut reaction was the same. And I still think it may be wise to opt out of this experiment until it is better understood.
But what if this initiative could indeed serve as a privacy-preserving replacement for #tracking? It looks better than all the terrible ideas Google came up with to replace cookies (#FLoC #PrivacySandbox #TopicsAPI) let alone #browserFingerprinting.
Here is my take on Mozilla's #privacyPreservingAttribution aka #privateAttribution: https://suma-ev.social/@christian/112761712837712799
Föderation EN Fr 12.07.2024 14:07:42
@christian my take is that the advertisement industry needs to disappear, full stop. It has overreached by far too much for far too long.
Föderation EN Fr 12.07.2024 16:13:45
@oblomov
Yeah, they are annoying me with advertisements I need to block (because I want to see the content, not the advertisement and also to not be tracked) and make me pay for it, as the costs of advertising make the products more expensive.
@christian
Föderation EN Fr 12.07.2024 16:33:30
Föderation EN Fr 12.07.2024 20:48:22
@oblomov Well, sometimes #Debian will ship different configuration defaults to upstream. So fingers crossed that someone running unstable/testing¹ files a bug to request that before this "feature" hits the ESR track and gets included in stable. I don't see one yet though...
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=firefox;dist=unstable
¹ Alas, all my systems are running stable atm.
