Posted on 10/10/2021 3:57:58 PM PDT by Mount Athos
In the address bar, Mozilla is now displaying ads disguised as Firefox contextual suggestions for US users. The company claims it introduced the feature to “fund development and optimization.”
“Beginning in Firefox version 92, you will also receive new, relevant suggestions from our trusted partners based on what you’re searching for. No new data is collected, stored, or shared to make these new recommendations,” Mozilla said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reclaimthenet.org ...
Never seen a hint of that crap, on 93.0 at the moment.
My ATT.Yahooo email is locked out, but that must be another issue.
If the capability is there NSA has been collecting every keystroke for many years.
I have tried it, NoScript is buggy in Brave.
Dumped Firefox a couple years ago...
Also dumped Thunderbird...
Both started out as a good idea, but after several years they each became a cumbersome & interfering POS...
Now prefer a barebones browser like Dissenter...
As for mail, I’m still experimenting... Have not found a keeper yet...
# I suggest brave or dissenter browsers
Agreed. Been using Brave for a while now, and really like it. Kinda wish FR could get donations for Brave Ads.
I like Brave, but it is buggy on some sites, so I have to keep other browsers as a backup.
Sometimes I can just turn off the Brave ad blocker to fix a broken page.
NoScript is THE ultimate blocking tool available.
Agreed.
NoScript can be annoying at times, as you have to sometimes experiment to find out which scripts are necessary to make a site work, but the inconvenience is worth it. I have google and twitter marked as permantely "untrusted."
If a site requires google javascript, I bug out.
Also, Youtube is unusable without Ghostery.
Guess i accidentally have them. 😂🙌.
Lawyers. Guns. Drugs. Money.
There, now they’re monitoring this thread.
“Dumped ‘ff’ months ago for Brave and StartPage for search engine...Plus I’m earning bitcoins or something.”
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/basic-attention-token
Another reason why I will never use Firefox again
Dissenter is dead, dead, dead.
I wonder if the device makes a difference? PC vs Mac, etc. - not sure why it would, though.
Cool. Thanks for the tip.
They’ve been here a long time.
Absolutely, thank you for the confirmation. Yes it does have a slight learning curve with what to toggle on. But you remember after awhile which it needs for what element.
But it is amazing how many are wide open even with everything blocked. And many just the top “domain” listing has to be toggled on. And have you noticed that this combination gets around paywalls like the Washington Post and others also? :)
But I have hit sites that had almost a hundred 3rd party API scripts that NoScript blocked, and only had to toggle on one to make the site function yet keep all the others blocked. :)
I have a back button (and forward) on my Brave.. (I think I had to bring it up somewhere in the options, but don’t remember where).
Thanks.
I’ve noticed the features are a bit different from laptop to phone version, for me, anyway.
been using waterfox, which i liked, but their update caused it to stop working- they have the classic version but i don’t care for that version-
Channeling Warren Zevon, are we?
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