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Tracking scripts should be blocked by default, not just delayed. If a user has some strange desire to be watched, give them the option to opt-in to their brows

• bzbarsky 9y ago
  > Tracking scripts should be blocked by default, not just delayed. There is in fact a preference to do that: Settings -> Privacy -> Tracking Protection, set to always. It breaks some reasonably popular sites, which is why it's not on by default across the board right now.
  • 659087 9y ago
    Yes, there's an option to enable blocking. I think it should be the other way around, which was kind of my whole point. That's the only way to encourage site owners to stop designing sites that break when they can't spy on users.
    • bzbarsky 9y ago
      If the tracking protection thing were being created before the sites, I agree. As things stand, it's a hard sell to have a browser do something that breaks sites that used to work. Most users tend to not be happy about it. This is definitely an area worth pushing on; the question is how best to do it.
• bigbugbag 9y ago
  Then mozilla risks losing 90% of its revenues because it comes from online tracking and ads.
• Sylos 9y ago
  Without tracking scripts, many webpage owners will be making much less money off of Firefox. If they don't make a whole lot of money off of Firefox, they won't test and optimize for Firefox much. So, we'd be seeing a lot more breakage of webpages in Firefox. Mozilla could maybe afford to pull something like that, if they had the majority marketshare, as then webpage owners would have to deal with their decisions in order to still make any revenue at all, but well, they don't.