Mozilla faces a privacy complaint from noyb for enabling Firefox's PPA feature without user consent.
  • TerkErJerbs@lemm.eeEnglish
    241·
    1 month ago

    Can confirm. Noticed that stupid fucking opt-out setting after the last update and shook my fist at the sky. Do better Firefox, ffs.

  • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caEnglish
    141·
    1 month ago

    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)

    Installing as a Flatpak via Flathub

    sudo pacman -S flatpak
flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-community

    Installing on Arch Linux via Yay:

    ## 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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  • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    In About:config you can find other more troublesome privacy issues

    Normandy

    User studies

    Crash reports (include URLs)

    Shopping partners

    Pocket api

      • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        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

        • you can also delete any api URL to be sure it doesn’t call home.

        Mull does this by default.