Mozilla just added "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" backdoor for advertisers to Firefox 128 without notifying users - Devnigger says users are too dumb to make an informed decision to opt in

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Unarmed Gunman said:
Confidently incorrect. You don't have to install extensions through the store you fucktwit.
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Grimdark Reaper said:
So being able to host extensions outside the Web Store like in GitHub is impossible because....?
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Where do you get them then? No I won't take "you download them from github" as an answer, no normie will ever do that faggot. Brave had an opportunity to open their own webstore for these extensions, but rejected the idea because they're absolute fuckwits.
 
Kiwi & Cow said:
No I won't take "you download them from github" as an answer, no normie will ever do that faggot.
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You can download them from wherever you want. It's no different (easier actually) than using FDroid on an Android phone if you give a shit about this sort of thing vs having Apple shovel whatever they want down your throat. The reason "most normies won't do it" is because most people are fucking NPC's and don't care about things like privacy, autonomy etc. Have a conversation with the average person if you don't believe me.
 
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geckogoy said:
Was discussing it at work a year and a half ago or so, it had something to do with storing account details and allowing extensions and certain google products to work. Unable to find any information pertaining to that after looking for a bit so may not be a real thing after all
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The Hangouts extension? You can disable it in the settings. Same with Widevine DRM.
 
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part of our job is to protect people who don't have the privilege and background to understand the details of cryptography and tracking from being tracked

This feature aims to do just that
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The goyim don't understand tracking, so we added tracking to prevent them from being tracked.
What kind of kikery is this?
 
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Whenever installing a browser on any computer of mine (or someone else's), I always have to go in and disable all the crappy default settings (which have trackers on, or telemetry, or "sponsored" shit), but I actually had no idea about this. I checked my Firefox, and it's already disabled, but I did not realize this was a thing they recently put in (I just disable this shit by muscle memory by now).

I previously used just Brave, but at the time I still used Windows, and I remember when they added their VPN service in Windows silent tasks in the background without informing anyone, and I quit them. While this was never an issue on Linux that I knew of, I still didn't trust it. They eventually addressed this, and I verified myself by setting up Windows 10 VM, installed the Windows version of Brave, and there were no hidden Windows tasks or services from Brave that I could see as of like a few weeks ago.

So looks like I'm going back to Brave. I'll also install Librewolf, but for some reason installing the AUR Librewolf on Manjaro takes a fucking eternity. I mean, I knew Firefox were a bunch of censorship loving faggots, but as others have pointed out, they were a good Chrome alternative that for the most part just worked, and Brave really rubbed me the wrong way with the VPN background service thing before.

Gonna remove Firefox from my home computers. Appreciate this thread.
 
Switched to brave as well. It was getting annoying having to switch to tor every time I wanted to view kf (don't judge me, I'm a bit paranoid).

Brave is super speedy, far speedier than firefox ever was so that's a bonus in my book.
 
Brave runs okay on Windows, but on all of my Linux installs with multiple distros it inevitably starts chewing up CPU or just locks up. The best solution to the web browser problem is to do everything possible to avoid using a web browser.
 
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