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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again (blog.privacyguides.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[+] hotpot8toe 67 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

99% of their users are not these things

I don't think so. People using Firefox are freaking evangelists trying to spread privacy. And if Firefox should lose those people, it will truly be the end

[+] hotpot8toe 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And these days, privacy is basically the only appeal of Firefox. It's slower than chrome or webkit based browsers, hangs out with Safari in terms of standards support, and can't hold a candle to either other browser when it comes to battery life. Why mozilla seems determined to throw that all away is beyond me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The last time I looked at performance and energy benchmarks Firefox was winning.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It’s slower than chrome or webkit based browsers, hangs out with Safari in terms of standards support, and can’t hold a candle to either other browser when it comes to battery life.

Sources?

[–] mrvictory1 11 points 5 months ago

FF users include both normal people and freaking evangelists trying to spread privacy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Privacy based advertizing:

Develop ad
Think about what websites your target demographic will probably frequent. (Be creative, dear marketing person! You can do it! This is the essence of what you're getting paid for!)
Pay those sites to display your ad

Done.

Forget about the technical details and whether the user understands what it is.

No. Why? It's simple. They are collecting data I don't want the ad networks to have instead of the ad networks and give it to the ad networks. That's only more private than the status quo if I'm okay with them to have this data and trust them to handle it responsibly. Which I have no reason to.

which is why they correctly say that the user won't understand the Feature.

See explanation above. That's not too complicated to explain to a person that managed to turn on the computer. It only gets complicated when you try to follow the mental gymnastics you need to think this feature adds privacy for anybody.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

This exactly. We don't need some in-between "compromise".