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What a joke. If any browser vendor really gave a fuck about privacy it would simply not be a problem anymore at all. It's certainly not worthy to have to dece
by benologist 14y ago
What a joke. If any browser vendor really gave a fuck about privacy it would simply not be a problem anymore at all.
It's certainly not worthy to have to deceive your way to the top of a list that exists because of how little privacy really matters to browser vendors.
- justinph 14y agoHow would this happen like you say? Browsers stop accepting third party cookies & scripts, block ads, disable localStorage, etc? It'd be the browser that no one would use, because half the sites on the 'net wouldn't work. Like many big problems, the solution is a lot more nuanced than you suggest. It involves browsers having more stringent defaults, website makers caring more (altruistically or by legislation) and consumers caring more.
- benologist 14y agoThey fight off viruses, malware, exploits, etc so I think mostly we should consider this a classification problem only from where we sit. Most of the net works too - AdBlock, NoScript and Ghostery wouldn't be amongst the most popular extensions on multiple browsers if they had many negative consequences.
- mburns 14y agoWhat else do you think Firefox should do to protect your privacy?
- benologist 14y agoThey should consider the leak of PII (outside of form fields) a vulnerability and treat companies that circumvent their efforts as hostile.