noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser which tracks user behaviour on websites.
You are probably judging too quickly.
To quote myself:
I don’t think this is really a problem. it allows sites to get some data about their advertising, without users giving up anything personal.
The setting can be disabled, but if you do that, you rely on normal cookie policy, so unless you have disabled cookies for the site, in which case many sites don’t work, you will probably be giving up way more data than with the setting on.
If you want to disable it go to “settings” -> “Privacy and security” -> and scroll down until you find: “Website Advertising Preferences” -> Disable the toggle.
I don’t see anything nefarious about this, as far as I can tell, it’s a measure to protect users without breaking functionality of a site.
mozilla has joined the enshittification train. Ditch them until they reverse course.
And use who?
Carrier pigeon.
That would be nice but what other alternatives are there? It’s either Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, or clones of these browsers.
What about Epiphany/Falcon? They are AFAIK built from scratch, apart from the engine. Would you still consider them clones?
Edge is chromium, just enshittified by Microsoft instead of Google.
The beauty of late stage capitalism is you get the illusion of choice — a handful of options, and all of them involve selling your soul to the devil.
The only other alternative is Chrome-based browsers, you know, the browser made by the gigantic ad company
You are probably judging too quickly.
To quote myself: