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If you haven’t already, move to Firefox.

by irrational 4y ago

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arnaudsm 4y ago
What's the difference between chrome's and Firefox's incognito?
- Vinnl 4y ago
  Firefox's Private Browsing mode also tracks more trackers and third-party cookies by default. Still won't catch everything, but it's definitely more private.
- yetanotherjosh 4y ago
  Even outside private browsing, Firefox has a feature called "total cookie protection"(1) which in a nutshell creates a separate cookie jar for every domain, so that third party cookies "work" but are not actually the same cookies if you change to a different site that uses the same third party. This would be entirely self-defeating for Chrome to do that, as it would substantially hinder the ad system's ability to build a comprehensive behavior profile and to know that while you're on site A that you also shop and buy on site B. Again this is now the default behavior in Firefox, not even a special mode. Mozilla as an org really is a good guy doing good things in the fight for online privacy, safety, transparency, etc. Not that I think Google is evil, it's just a different business with different customers with different concerns. 1) https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o...
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  FF incognito alone not so much. But there's also container tabs, which fully isolate content and context from one another (though of course IP-based tracking remains effective). <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers>
metadat 4y ago
The thing is, FF/Moz have a lot of telemetry which is on by default, and most of the toggles are hidden away and can only be disabled by digging through about:config. I encourage you to see for yourself how much there is, visit about:config and filter for "telemetry" and then "beacon". It's a lot. They track things like every time you close and open the browser, check for an update, and lots more. I took an hour to through and disable it all on each of my machines.

If you haven’t already, move to Firefox.

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arnaudsm 4y ago

What's the difference between chrome's and Firefox's incognito?

Vinnl 4y ago
Firefox's Private Browsing mode also tracks more trackers and third-party cookies by default. Still won't catch everything, but it's definitely more private.
yetanotherjosh 4y ago
Even outside private browsing, Firefox has a feature called "total cookie protection"(1) which in a nutshell creates a separate cookie jar for every domain, so that third party cookies "work" but are not actually the same cookies if you change to a different site that uses the same third party. This would be entirely self-defeating for Chrome to do that, as it would substantially hinder the ad system's ability to build a comprehensive behavior profile and to know that while you're on site A that you also shop and buy on site B. Again this is now the default behavior in Firefox, not even a special mode. Mozilla as an org really is a good guy doing good things in the fight for online privacy, safety, transparency, etc. Not that I think Google is evil, it's just a different business with different customers with different concerns. 1) https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o...
dredmorbius 4y ago
FF incognito alone not so much. But there's also container tabs, which fully isolate content and context from one another (though of course IP-based tracking remains effective). <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers>

metadat 4y ago

The thing is, FF/Moz have a lot of telemetry which is on by default, and most of the toggles are hidden away and can only be disabled by digging through about:config. I encourage you to see for yourself how much there is, visit about:config and filter for "telemetry" and then "beacon". It's a lot. They track things like every time you close and open the browser, check for an update, and lots more. I took an hour to through and disable it all on each of my machines.