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Good. uBlock Origin also has a feature that disables this spyware.
by redwall_hp 8y ago
Good. uBlock Origin also has a feature that disables this spyware.
- comex 8y agoGreat, and instead you get to go through a redirect which tracks the same information but is slower.
- anoncake 8y agoSo at least sites that spy on their users will have a worse UX than before. That is an improvement, though a small one.
- comex 8y agoSpeak for yourself. In my opinion, the ability to count how many people click on which search results, and rank results higher if they get a lot of clicks (excluding cases where the user then pressed back and picked another result), seems like a good way to boost result quality without having much impact on privacy. Full disclosure – I also allow Google to track my search history for personalization, but I think there are many good reasons to dislike that, I understand why people turn it off, and while I don't, I'd prefer a personalization method that doesn't require such granular data.
- anoncake 8y agoThis kind of tracking might be worth it, given informed consent by the user. If the user does not consent, it is spying. Especially if you have to bypass intentional privacy protections, in this case the disabling of the ping feature.
- mcv 8y agoOr Firefox will end up with a worse UX than before. I'm pretty sure the spying sites offer the cumbersome solution only to browsers that have ping disabled. What you need is a browser that claims to honour ping but doesn't.