@pixellight Wait, what?!
Found this discussion about the 'feature': https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1dqngjy/privacypreserving_ad_measurement_concerns/

@pixellight Huh. Thing is, it isn’t an inherently horrible idea; attribution at the moment is incredibly invasive, and this alternative approach to it is much, much less so. Still, it shouldn’t be on by default, let alone without flagging it to the user first. Plus the fact that it’s something they’re working on with Meta makes me uneasy.

@pixellight I'm torn between wanting to go back to Web1 and browsers that were designed to just display websites and just wanting to go full Butlarian at this point.

@pixellight@pony.social ladybird cant come soon enough

@pixellight
Thanks for the heads-up!

@pixellight@pony.social whyyy did they implement that 😭

@pixellight@pony.social Is this the result of the partnership with Facebook they announced two years ago for "privacy-preserving" spyware?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/

@pixellight Just install uBlock Origin. No idea why anyone does not have that installed.

@pixellight Thanks, and even worse: if you open Settings and type 'advertising' in the search box to find the setting, you get... no hits. Even though it's clearly there and includes that word.

@pixellight My love for Firefox is slowly waning. What a shame that most everything else well-supported is Chromium-based.

@pixellight the new Mozilla CEO and her consequences have been a disaster for the human race

@pixellight What ads? ¯\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

LB: This didn't come up for me when I searched Settings, so FYI it's under Privacy & Security, down under Firefox Data Collection and Use.

@pixellight Thanks for the heads-up! I just disabled that option

@pixellight@pony.social this got me to reinstall librewolf again and not be a whiny bitch about default settings

@Privacymatters 👆 might want to have a look?

@pixellight what a weird feature to both have and make opt-out

wonder how much they've been paid to do this

@pixellight well that's annoying. thanks!

@pixellight ugh such cringe

@pixellight@pony.social oh neat more bullshit in a once-good browser
thank fuck Firefox forks exist

@pixellight i keep dreading having to make a new firefox build with all my patches more and more as mozilla keeps throwing more wrenches in my face

@pixellight
Thanks for that!

@pixellight wtf wtf wtf

@pixellight yet another reason to use librewolf

@pixellight WTF, @mozilla ?

#Firefox #Tracking

@pixellight how bad is it, how much data does it collect, is it really privacy invasive despite them claming it's not?

@pixellight What the heck? Stop being bad until another browser can come along...

@pixellight the relevant about:config/user.js entry is dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled

@pixellight is this some "privacy sandbox" level BS

@pixellight how rose-coloured is the sky in mozilla land? how's that google dollar tasting?

@pixellight
Thanks for the heads up!

@pixellight
Oh, thank you for the hint.
For german users see my screenshot.

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@pixellight I see so few people engaging in explaining why this is bad or even why this is ok. Everyone seems to be moaning and cursing, but I suspect 99% of us don't understand what this is, how it works, how it will fail if it does or why it is bad for privacy.
Also, it says they're "prototyping" so we're not quite there yet anyway.
I'm all for protecting users, but come on, this isn't helping.

@pixellight
Thank you!

@pixellight
I'm still pretty happy with Firefox. But I do hope that 'Ladybird' makes good progress; just to add another independent force so that Firefox doesn't lose its moral compass.

https://ladybird.org/posts/announcement/

@pixellight Thank you! And while your at it, if you're running Pi-Hole et al. disable the default on "DNS over HTTPS" 🤬

@pixellight What the hell, Mozilla???

@pixellight having read up on what they have designed, it actually sounds pretty reasonable

@pixellight
More details: https://mzl.la/3Xht2j1

@pixellight

#Firefox
'might', yes.

Perhaps. Perchance. Peut-être. Parfois 🤣

@pixellight If this wasn't opt-out, I wouldn't mind this existing as much. Here it seems like Mozilla has really misstepped on what is effectively a consent issue.

You just don't start giving away more information without explicit consent (opt-in), that's privacy 101.

@pixellight Why would you want to deny sites the ability to see how their ads are performing without collecting data about you? That seems a bit spiteful, if you ask me. :P

Or maybe it's that they will always have that ability, but if you uncheck that box, it implies that they WILL be collecting data about you? :?

@pixellight Why would I disable something that provides an incentive for advertisers NOT to track me?

@pixellight That's why I switched to using #LibreWolf, It is #Firefox with all #privacy preserving features turned on by default
https://librewolf.net/

@pixellight Thank you :) it's done, I hate these kind of opt out things, it's really not a great thing to do to the users :/

@pixellight Thank you very much!

@pixellight Fun fact: If you look for this setting by using the Search bar in the Settings menu, it won’t appear⁠—you have to actively look for it in the Privacy & Security section.

@pixellight This is supposed to help "protect" your personally identifiable information, so it could be a good thing. But who knows how trustworthy it is.
https://www.appsflyer.com/glossary/privacy-preserving-technologies/

@pixellight @honzajavorek “PRIVACY-PRESERVING”

@pixellight

Do we know if there's something similar in firefox mobile?