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still no cookie UI fix.... very disappointing, especially for an organization that claims to pride itself on protecting user privacy while dropping google analy
by justcommenting 12y ago
still no cookie UI fix.... very disappointing, especially for an organization that claims to pride itself on protecting user privacy while dropping google analytics and google cookies on users... probably because they're so heavily dependent on google's money.
- ep103 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454456
- justcommenting 12y agowhen you go to getfirefox.com, you'll be tracked by google analytics as you're reading about mozilla's "commitment to your privacy". think one cookie is better than two? maybe, but the context matters here. it took mozilla seven years to stop sending other google cookies along with safebrowsing update requests, including about half a year after the washington post reported that NSA was using this behavior/functionality for targeting: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368255 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368255 Mozilla never seems to have anything to say about Google PREF cookies being trivially correlated to google logins from the same IP within a certain timeframe. more to the point, Firefox still can't be trusted to even tell you which cookies have been dropped in its default configuration through the UI, let alone have a default configuration that limits persistent forms of tracking from its primary sponsor. i find this galling given their marketing push around mozilla's "commitment to your privacy".