Google is spending a lot of cash to make Firefox look bad so people are unmotivated to change away from Chrome when manifest v3 is fully rolled out.

There’s so many anti-Mozilla people on Lemmy it’s crazy. I’m getting downvotes in other threads in this community for pointing out that all the anti-Mozilla FUD has amounted to nothing of substance.

There are many interests playing to make sure it is destroyed. Any little non issue explodes big. Or people just don't know how to read.

Because it makes it harder for advertisers to mine and sell your data. That's it.

It's not like it's not been rolling out features and opting people in without telling them...

I love Firefox, I’ve even spent money to support it in the past. The Mozilla organization seems at best incompetent and at worst willfully corrupt. There’s no love lost here.

Yeah - I've actually softened my own stance since I wrote that paragraph near the end, too, I just didn't feel like editing a message that I claimed to have copy/pasted. While I still have no intention of enabling the feature in my install, that's out of pure spite for anything that could conceivably help an advertiser somewhere, even if it isn't at my expense. I do see value in the feature itself existing. While I think the industry is unlikely to abandon tracking cookies and swap to this system voluntarily, I could see certain governments eventually mandating such a change, if the feature proves robust enough.

I might even go as far as to agree that on-by-default is the better option for the feature's chances of success - but for new installs. When new features are added to existing installs in updates, particularly if those features are in the "Privacy & Security" section of the settings page, it would probably be better practice to ask the user to pick an option on the first boot after updating.

Their acquisition of Anonym was all about acquiring the feature this article is about, PPA. Anonym created PPA. In fact Anonym seems to have been created for the explicit purpose of creating this privacy-respecting system as an alternative to cross-site tracking cookies. I see no reason to doubt Mozilla's intentions here.