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Firefox continues its fight for privacy by automatically stripping URL trackers
- hunglee2 4y agopotential game changer for the ad / marketing industry. Firefox market share is <10%(?) but I can imagine a lot of people migrating over to it as default browser once they discover this feature.
- turboponyy 4y ago
- jmprspret 4y agoNews flash; most users that make up most of the browser userbase don't actually care about this at all, nor do they understand the implications.
- sacrosanct 4y agoMozilla give that figure because of telemetry, but I imagine it’s higher since many privacy folk disable telemetry
- AdriaanvRossum 4y agoLove this approach. It’s basically a replacement for cookies and similar technologies. As the founder of Simple Analytics [1], I see many examples of product that try to replace cookies with something else. Sometimes it’s even worse, privacy-wise. Happy to be able to support a “Independent” browser that takes our privacy seriously. Although their push for the Firefox account is a bit weird. [1] https://www.simpleanalytics.com https://www.simpleanalytics.com