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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 248 points 4 months ago (10 children)

...... I don't know of this is satire or not.

There is now a feature labeled "Privacy-preserving ad measurement" near the bottom of your Firefox Privacy settings. I recommend turning it off, or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Definitely satire, the context from earlier:

Firefox is worse than Chrome in their implementation of ad snitching, because Chrome enables it only after user consent.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I mean, have you met people? They could be completely serious when posting that lol.