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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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 ;)

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months 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).