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Firefox starts monitoring keystrokes, adding adverts to address bar
Reclaim the Net ^ | October 9, 2021 | Ken Macon

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.

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To: Mount Athos

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.


21 posted on 10/10/2021 4:38:25 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: KarlInOhio

If the capability is there NSA has been collecting every keystroke for many years.


22 posted on 10/10/2021 4:40:06 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: for-q-clinton

I have tried it, NoScript is buggy in Brave.


23 posted on 10/10/2021 4:54:24 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Mount Athos

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...


24 posted on 10/10/2021 5:14:47 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Mount Athos

# 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.


25 posted on 10/10/2021 5:16:01 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Mount Athos

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.


26 posted on 10/10/2021 5:29:33 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Openurmind
The very good advantage with Firefox is being able to addon “NoScript” and Ghostery”. Even Brave or Dissenter can’t match the security, privacy, and ad blocking of NoScript along with Ghostery.

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.

27 posted on 10/10/2021 5:32:55 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: Jane Long

Guess i accidentally have them. 😂🙌.


28 posted on 10/10/2021 6:11:58 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Mount Athos

Lawyers. Guns. Drugs. Money.

There, now they’re monitoring this thread.


29 posted on 10/10/2021 6:18:12 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: All; rktman

“Dumped ‘ff’ months ago for Brave and StartPage for search engine...Plus I’m earning bitcoins or something.”


/Grin/ It is the crypto “BAT” for “Brave Rewards”. And you can donate it to Free Republic automatically monthly or tip FR. Which reminds me...”ask John R. if FR accepts Brave/BAT donations”. (Currently at about 72 cents per “BAT”).

https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/basic-attention-token


30 posted on 10/10/2021 6:25:02 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Mount Athos

Another reason why I will never use Firefox again


31 posted on 10/10/2021 6:26:01 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: SuperLuminal

Dissenter is dead, dead, dead.


32 posted on 10/10/2021 6:41:29 PM PDT by LimitedPowers (Citizenship is not a Hate Crime!)
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To: rktman

I wonder if the device makes a difference? PC vs Mac, etc. - not sure why it would, though.


33 posted on 10/10/2021 6:42:49 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Drago

Cool. Thanks for the tip.


34 posted on 10/10/2021 6:49:40 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: BraveMan

They’ve been here a long time.


35 posted on 10/10/2021 6:51:11 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: T Ruth

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. :)


36 posted on 10/10/2021 7:36:41 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Jane Long

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).


37 posted on 10/10/2021 8:42:15 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

Thanks.

I’ve noticed the features are a bit different from laptop to phone version, for me, anyway.


38 posted on 10/10/2021 9:00:22 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Mount Athos

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-


39 posted on 10/10/2021 9:25:04 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: BraveMan
> Lawyers. Guns. Drugs. Money.

Channeling Warren Zevon, are we?

40 posted on 10/10/2021 9:40:12 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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