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1. It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 02:53:17 JST It's FOSS

   Firefox's move to support privacy-preserving ads backfired.

   https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-ppa-ad/

   #firefox #privacy

   • 🏳️‍🌈 Vitalik (sk8er@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 03:42:50 JST 🏳️‍🌈 Vitalik

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     @itsfoss And I agree with this comment

   • FOSStastic (fosstastic@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 05:17:19 JST FOSStastic

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     @itsfoss "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

     It reminds me a whole lot of Do Not Track, which also had good intentions, but ended up just introducing yet another vector to use for fingerprinting.

     I also disagree with the claim that internet ads inherently require tracking.

     No other form of advertising provides direct feedback about someone's interests or the products someone purchased after seeing or hearing an ad.

     Advertising can be unidirectional, it doesn't need tracking.

   • sarcastictoast (sarcastictoast@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 11:16:56 JST sarcastictoast

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     @itsfoss The bold move to make PPA opt-out, even on existing installations, risks uniquely fingerprinting users who opt out. An opt-in approach would limit this risk. Moreover, PPA doesn't change existing tracking, also based on my understanding of DAP. And the comment by Bas Schouten is absolutely informal fallacy - claiming "Privacy features, in Firefox, are not meant to be opt-in." is just presenting it as true privacy feature and those for opt-in are essentially wrong.