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Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent

thehackernews.com Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent

Mozilla faces a privacy complaint from noyb for enabling Firefox's PPA feature without user consent.

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

Flatpak

Arch AUR Repo

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

Normandy

User studies

Crash reports (include URLs)

Shopping partners

Pocket api
- Fucking Pocket. It keeps getting re-enabled. Not on every update, otherwise I'd build muscle memory to go turn it off, but at random updates infrequent enough that I don't always remember to go check it.
  
  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.
Can we disable this on mobile?
- Yes, but the point is that you shouldn't have to.
  
  I don't think we have about:config on mobile. I'm not sure we have this option in the mobile settings yet. The "share with Mozilla" thing was already disabled so I'm guessing it's not the new one.
Firefox ESR creates some safe distance between you and these "wonderful" new features that everybody "wants".

And plenty enough time for a user.js template to be tweaked accordingly.