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

submitted 2 years ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 23 points 2 years ago (10 children)

WTF... i thought this was just click bait but went to check on my phone as i am not at my PC right now

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[–] dman87@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm on 128 on my phone. I just checked and both of those are disabled for me.

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[–] shottymcb@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Same

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

double same

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Triple same.

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[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Idk what 128 is on a phone, but my galaxy s21 had everything still off. Guess I'll have to keep an eye on it

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[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

build number (version) of Firefox, which is the software in question.

"Galaxy S21" is the model name for a physical Samsung phone, which isn't relevant to the topic.

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[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Oh, heard that. I'm on 128 on my phone too and they were all disabled

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

I'm on 128 on my phone and it was on for me, I definitely didn't turn those on myself. wtf.

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[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Just checked mine and it's all disabled

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[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

These are old options. I checked these off long ago.

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I'm using Mull.

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[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm using mull fork of Firefox which doesn't even have these settings, the tracking features are completely removed from the browser.

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[+] divergency@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I mostly see telemetry requests getting blocked in my firewall. Is there anything else I've missed?

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[+] divergency@scribe.disroot.org 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

It was on for me too, wtf...

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[–] khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Mine was off, just checked.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Use Mull

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[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 point 2 years ago

I know, that's awful. I also turn it off. But that's actually different than the new feature mentioned in this post. This has existed for years already (I think)

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[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Here's the info about it: https://mzl.la/3AcmG8q

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