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

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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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[–] 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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