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Mozilla partners with The Markup to study Facebook tracking and data collection
- Nextgrid 5y agoFacebook's data collection is well-known and does not require a client-side "study". You can just reverse-engineer the Facebook Pixel JS code. Similarly, tracking instances of the FB pixel in the wild can be done with a web scraper. This is yet another puff of hot air typical of Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy. You want to actually commit to privacy? Bundle (or reimplement) uBlock Origin as a default feature of the browser, or at the very least blackhole requests to *.facebook.com if the parent tab's URL is not facebook.com. But Mozilla will never do so because this would actually mean living with the consequences of their choice - ie. websites blocking Firefox meaning they'd have to masquerade as another browser and defend against fingerprinting which requires developer effort. They'd rather merely claim (very loudly) that they're pro-privacy without actually doing anything.
- greenyoda 5y agoFirefox already has built-in tracking protection that blocks social media trackers, cross-site cookies and more. On the "Enhanced Tracking Protection" section on the "Privacy & Security" preferences page, select the "Strict" setting. (They don't make this the default because they want people to be aware that it could break certain sites.) There's a "Learn more" link there with more information: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote... I confirmed that the Strict mode blocks connections to connect.facebook.net, googletagservices.com and others.