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This is very exciting, but it seems it's just building in partial uMatrix functionality. It's really becoming a pain to have so many overlapping tools doing the

• staticvoidmaine 8y ago
  I'd like to challenge your attitude on this. Does it not make sense to have your browser handle this out of the box? Personally I'd rather have overlapping functionality for a bit while we work toward a sane browser by default than the alternative which is maintaining some number of extensions each with their own configs etc...
  • daveFNbuck 8y ago
    I agree with you. I'd be very happy if they announced that all uMatrix functionality was being added to the browser. I'd be happy to have overlapping functionality for now if that's the future. My biggest disappointment is that this doesn't do anything new. My secondary disappointment is that this will make my life a little harder when I can't get a website to work. I hope you're right that this means I eventually won't need to install a plugin for uMatrix functionality.
• jefftk 8y ago
  > In the coming months, we will start testing these protections with small groups of users and will continue to work with Disconnect to improve and expand the set of domains blocked by Firefox. We plan to enable these protections by default for all Firefox users in a future release. Default settings can move the industry in a way that opt-in things like uMatrix generally don't. (Disclosure: I work on ads at Google)
  • daveFNbuck 8y ago
    That's why I said this is exciting. For normal users it's a big win, and that has much more potential to move the industry.