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Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising (blog.mozilla.org)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Terrible news

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

for anybody that wants to disable it, go to the settings and search for "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement"

(or through the dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled flag in about:config)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Stolen from r*ddit, this is what the option looks like in the config (already in beta/dev channel)

also stolen from r*ddit: "Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives Brad Smallwood and Graham Mudd."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Librewolf is the new Firefox

Change my mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I switched a few months back after using Firefox /w ArkenWolf for years.

It's great having an out the box product I don't have to immediately tweak settings or install 3rd party tweaks & plugins to have a decent experience with.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Great

I love how Mozilla seems to be trying so hard to kill itself. You don't see Google marketing Chrome as the browser that serves you ads and sends back telemetry.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Not the first time Mozilla has done something like this. In 2017, Mozilla stealthily installed a tracking and advertising plugin called Cliqz on a small number of German user's computers, which provided users with targeted ads, with very similar language to what Mozilla is currently trying to incorporate with Anonym.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: Cliqz also developed a search engine, which later got purchased by Brave and renamed Brave Search.

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