Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent
Mozilla faces a privacy complaint from noyb for enabling Firefox's PPA feature without user consent.
Can confirm. Noticed that stupid fucking opt-out setting after the last update and shook my fist at the sky. Do better Firefox, ffs.
Heads up yall:
By deselecting/disabling everything under Firefox Data Collection and Use it should also disable Website Advertising Preferences which is the Privacy-preserving attribution (PPA) as mentioned in the article
That and I would honestly recommend installing Librewolf as an alternative browser (it's Firefox but with privacy prioritized default settings)
bash
sudo pacman -S flatpak flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-community
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## Yay Install sudo pacman -S git git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay/ makepkg -si ## Enter super user/or root password when prompted. ## Package installs with Yay yay -S librewolf-bin
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In About:config you can find other more troublesome privacy issues
Normandy
User studies
Crash reports (include URLs)
Shopping partners
Pocket api
Fucking Pocket. It keeps getting re-enabled. Not on every update, otherwise I'd build muscle memory to go turn it off, but at random updates infrequent enough that I don't always remember to go check it.
Make a user.js file and put it in your Mozilla profile config dir.
It overrides the settings before launch, so if it was reenabled by remote setting updates, it will be kept disabled. (Do this for any setting you want to make persistent)
extensions.pocket.enabled false
Mull does this by default.
Firefox ESR creates some safe distance between you and these "wonderful" new features that everybody "wants".
And plenty enough time for a user.js template to be tweaked accordingly.