Grab some popcorn, get a nice drink, and sit down, guys gals and non binary pals, because oh boyyyyyy, have I got a story for you.
Section one: """"private"""" advertising. Modzilla decided to incredibly stupid recently, you wanna know how? They added checks notes """"privacy"""" preserving advertising in their browser, which is the exact same thing that brave has got hate for, for obvious reasons.
Privacy cannot be achieved while advertisements are being shoved down our throats. This theory, that ads can be privacy friendly, is what corporations want us to believe and it is a disgusting view that goes against the very reality we find ourselves living in.
Direction to an advertiser isn't privacy friendly, as the advertisers themselves are not. Why is Modzilla adding advertisements to Firefox? Because they are getting desperate. They want to make sure that their big daddy CEO gets millions while we have to put up with the the bullshit that we all moved away from Chrome because of.
Section two: a telemetry and moral nightmare, teaming up with zionist bastards. Firefox turns on telemetry by default that goes straight back to Google. Guess what Google is doing about the war in Gaza right now? Funding it, the genocide of innocent people and making sure they are being killed. By allowing this telemetry we are thereby allowing Google to make money off of it and as such: Israel, the worst enemy of anyone with common sense, money.
Section three: teaming up with vladdy daddy (vladimir putin). You heard me right. Firefox is teaming up with the Russian Federation to stop people from forming their own opinion on the Ukraine war, therefore proving that they are extremely pro censorship. They've already stated before that they're willing to collaborate with western shills, but this is just the cherry on top of the cake.
Section four: the mortal enemy of the revolution must be avoided. Modzilla is a corporation, corporations are the enemy of the revolution. Modzilla abuses their developers and they have been found bullying disabled people behind closed doors. If we want a revolution to happen, then the least we can do is avoid the companies with blood on their hands, and like it or not, Modzilla is one of them.
Section five: what should I use instead? Glad you asked, if it isn't already obvious, I personally recommend only one browser: Librewolf. For a DeGoogled android operating system, I recommend you use Vandium, it's a browser made by the people over at the GrapheneOS project and it's amazing. For iOS? You aren't private, but I would recommend using Snowhaze.
Section six: wait, what does Modzilla have to do with politics? Ironically, a lot of things. They perhaps unintentionally, but still do fund the zionist project, by aiding Google. They are an extremely disgusting company that has hopped on the AI trend that silicon valley has adopted. They are joining Chrome in becoming a monopoly in themselves, and Modzilla is a corporation that has major donations from some of the most evil companies in the world.
Regardless of this negative rant, I hope you enjoyed the post, and please consider using another browser since it will be much better for you!
Sources (Beware of trackers! Nothing I can do about that unfortunately :(( ): https://www.heise.de/en/news/For-advertising-Firefox-now-collects-user-data-by-default-9801345.html https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/
They opened an Origin Trial for it, which means: "It will only be available for certain sites. Note that because Mozilla is paying the DAP aggregation service costs, so participation is by invitation only."
The only site so far is MDN. It does not do anything on websites that are not MDN.
From the Intent to Experiment: "Chrome ships similar functionality with their Attribution Reporting API (the Summary Reports, not Event-Level Reporting), but with effectively no privacy protections. See https://github.com/WICG/attribution-reporting-api"
Safari has another version of this, which is also not privacy-friendly.
To contrast, PPA is an open standard published by the W3C PATCG and cryptographically vetted by the IETF Network Working Group, never mind that its implementation in Firefox is only a temporary, origin-restricted research prototype.
Mozilla's CTO did a
AMA yesterday to give the community answers, with respect to Private Attribution. He's also not just some executive, he's a former Servo dev and long-time Firefox dev, his words carry technical weight. One of the things he said: "There's no tracking involved here because nobody outside the local machine gets any individualized data, just aggregate counts."
As the CTO said, "There's no partnership or money changing hands. This is an engineer-to-engineer collaboration at the W3C."
The real reason for Mozilla doing this is stated in their original Intent to Experiment: "Use of PPA effectively eliminates one key justification advertisers use for tracking people online."
They're trying to get Chrome and Safari to use it instead of the privacy-invading alternatives they currently use. Needless to say, if you use uBlock Origin, your Firefox install will not use PPA anyway.
"Stop using Firefox because you should use this Chromium reskin instead"
Right? I swear, every time I see a "new browser" mentioned it's either Firefox w/ a config applied out of the box (usually Arkenfox's user.js, as in the case of LibreWolf and Waterfox) and some new branding, or Ungoogled Chromium with some new branding. Really gives off the same feeling as all those "g*mer Linux distributions" like Garuda, use this thing that is supposedly better because vague hand waving motions, trust me!
Just install Firefox, head to
about:configand turn some things off and call it a day.Seriously this. Im tired, I don't have the physical or mental energy to keep up with all these new reskin browsers. I already left Chrome, Firefox can be "good enough" with the right settings.
You can also use policy templates and ffprofile to quickly set sane Firefox defaults and forget about it.