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Firefox survey II

For those of you who block Google Analytics, which of the below do you use?

This is a follow up to last week's survey:

mastodon.social/@lufthans/1115…

Feel free to boost for visibility, comment for specific tool recommendations

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics

Edit: bah, survey fail, forgot to make multi-select

  • use ad block add on to block Google Analytics (5 votes)
  • use JavaScript and cookie blockers to block Google (3 votes)
  • use a privacy add on to block Google Analytics (3 votes)
  • Pepper&Carrot ( see results w/o participating ) (1 vote)
Poll end: 11 months ago


Firefox survey

Edit: follow up survey on what people use to block Google Analytics - mastodon.social/@lufthans/1115…

When using Firefox which of the following do you do?

See Esther's post for article about Firefox being at only 2.2% use per Google Analytics for US government sites:

mastodon.social/@estherschindl…

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#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics #InherentlyBoostable



Firefox survey

Edit: follow up survey on what people use to block Google Analytics - mastodon.social/@lufthans/1115…

When using Firefox which of the following do you do?

See Esther's post for article about Firefox being at only 2.2% use per Google Analytics for US government sites:

mastodon.social/@estherschindl…

Feel free to boost for visibility

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics #InherentlyBoostable

  • use a DNS blackhole to block Google Analytics (36%, 152 votes)
  • use browser add on to block Google Analytics, ad b (80%, 330 votes)
  • don't block Google Analytics in any way (4%, 19 votes)
  • Pepper&Carrot ( see results w/o participating ) (5%, 23 votes)
412 voters. Poll end: 11 months ago


Firefox survey II

For those of you who block Google Analytics, which of the below do you use?

This is a follow up to last week's survey:

mastodon.social/@lufthans/1115…

Feel free to boost for visibility, comment for specific tool recommendations

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics

Edit: bah, survey fail, forgot to make multi-select



: I use #NextDNS for DNS-level tracker-blocking.

Browser with #uBlockOrigin.
(Prefer #Firefox)

And use the direct website for email providers, instead of using Outlook client. 😁


#Google pays 1150 times its entire #lobbying budget in the EU & US to fund its search engine #monopoly.😳

And if that wasn't bad enough, now they're accused of slowing down #YouTube on non-Chrome Browsers like #Firefox! 🤬

Does Google know any shame? Apparently not. 🤡 tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…


Happy Firefox 120 release for those who celebrate 🎉

This comes with a couple important Debugger fixes and a bunch of accessibility improvements in the toolbox.

Grab your drink of choice and read through the full update fxdx.dev/firefox-devtools-news…

#Firefox #a11y #webdev


Viendo los cambios que trae Firefox 120 te das cuenta de lo rota que está la internet actual.

Estos cambios no deberían ser necesarios, y sin embargo, lo son más que nunca: copiar enlaces sin parámetros de rastreo, pedir a los sitios que no vendan tus datos ni te rastreen, auto-denegación de cookies innecesarias...

mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.…

Y Chrome yendo en la dirección contraria. Se viene un cisma en internet.

#enshitification #firefox #privacidad


Want to test out Firefox using PipeWire for camera handling?
@jgrulich has made this Fedora COPR available for you to help us test! copr.fedorainfracloud.org/copr… #linux #fedora #pipewire #firefox


Cheeky fuckers.

#Youtube have deployed Javascript that delays video load if the user is using #Firefox

old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comme…


"Did any user in the world want a user tracking and ad platform baked directly into their browser? Probably not, but this is Google, and they control Chrome, and this probably still won't make people switch to Firefox."

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

I stick to #Firefox


Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chro…
⚠️⁠eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/goog…


Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠developer.chrome.com/blog/resu…


EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.


For those of us receiving email in multiple languages, it would be awesome to have #Firefox Translate built in to Thunderbird. No sending your sensitive conversations to a corporate cloud, just a lean translation service running locally.

We've decided to make it a development priority for Q1 2024!

You'll be able to track the progress via this bug: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

But as always, we'll also keep you posted right here.


I always visit #YouTube without preserving cookies from previous visits, because I don't want their tracking or their recommendations based on my browsing history, but this seems to also stop the "you're using an ad-blocker" popup.

Here's how I configure Temporary Containers (medium.com/@stoically/enhance-…) in #Firefox to do that.

The first screenshot is the basic configuration; the second is some optional additional settings I use so I don't have to click quite as many things every time I open a new YouTube tab.


If you've seen in the PR for #ECH in #curl and been curious what it is? github.com/curl/curl/pull/1192…

The browsers go all-in on it. Now #Firefox:
blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…


"Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet."

Just #mozilla making your #firefox more privacy preserving, as we are wont to do.

blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…


Daha yeni kullanmaya başlamışken yüz yıllık simgesinin değişmiş olduğunu görmek ve üstelik canımıs #Firefox'un örnek alınmış olması 🥺♥️


On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution.

It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it.

A thread 🧵

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… 1/6


Sorry, neither #Linux nor #Firefox are supported by this provider if you want to see your psychiatrist via telehealth. Luckily, my doctor was willing to use an alternative encrypted chat platform. #ADHD


They really look awesome together, don't they?

This summer, please reorganize your task bars appropriately 😆

#Firefox #Thunderbird


Now I have to go and rearrange my Firefox and @thunderbird icons on the task bar! They need to be side-by-side.

Is it just me, or does there need to be a huge VS in the middle...

#Firefox #Thunderbird


Just like our software, the current (and yes, beloved) Thunderbird logo has seen small, iterative improvements throughout the last 20 years. But now the software is evolving into something more modern, and we believe it deserves a fresh logo that properly represents this revitalization.

Introducing the brand new Thunderbird logo, designed by the creator of the original #Firefox and #Thunderbird logos, @jonhicks 🎉

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/i…


Just like #Firefox, you can add your own custom start page to #Thunderbird. What are some of your favorite start pages?

(Pictured in our screenshot is Bonjourr. via github.com/victrme/Bonjourr)


True story: Mozilla's @mconley is a legend. (Also, he worked on Mozilla Messenger, and is responsible for #Ubuntu shipping with Thunderbird!)

His enthusiasm is so contagious that just listening to this podcast might turn you into a software engineer! Join us for ThunderCast episode 2 as we reminisce about the early days of the internet, and talk about Firefox features more people should be using.
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

#Thunderbird #Firefox #Podcast


"We need people fighting for Firefox"

I agree. Firefox has been my default browser since a loooong time. The current situation is very problematic in the medium-long term, and has potential to be worse than the "IE6" times, because Google is (and has been for ages) actually an Ads company.

If not directly, somehow help keep Firefox alive.

reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1…

#firefox #browsers #FightForFirefox #openweb


Welcome back to the ThunderCast: Episode 2 is READY!

We welcome special #Mozilla guest @mconley, a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described “pre-internet phenomenon” among many other awesome things.

Join us for a great conversation full of nostalgia, a behind-the-scenes look at some great Firefox features, and much more!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

#Podcast #Firefox #OpenSource #Dev #Email #Linux


We've lined up some awesome guests for the next 3 episodes of #ThunderCast:

Episode 2: Mike Conley of #Mozilla, a software mechanic who works on #Firefox desktop.

Episode 3: Mike Saunders, who does marketing and community outreach for @libreoffice.

Episode 4: Thib Martin @thibaultamartin, a GNOME Foundation Board member who also has a special talent for making people love @matrix.

Get subscribed, some great conversations are coming!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/t…

#Matrix #Podcast #Thunderbird


If you love the #Firefox Translations add-on as much as we do and find yourself thinking "this should REALLY come to Thunderbird," then this bug is worth keeping an eye on:

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…


In fact, I learnt a lot about how #Thunderbird and @mozilla are actually related, and I always thought it's a hardwired #Mozilla product just like #Firefox.

I'm really looking forward to the improvements in Supernova and also future updates to #K9Mail. I used to be a #GMail user but ran into performance problems on older devices and under bad networking conditions. Not a problem for good old #IMAP! :)


#Chromium landed support for fractional scaling on #Wayland a couple of days ago. It was reverted again today. Reason for revert: This change completely broke Chromium Ozone/Wayland on compositors that support fractional-scale-v1.

Nobody had ever tested it and the authors missed the whole actual scaling part with wp_viewporter.

Anyhow, here's a working initial patch for #Firefox:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…


I've just run into another CPU bug affecting #Firefox so this is a good occasion to show you how one looks like and how I identify it. CPU bugs have always been a fact of life but they've become more common as CPUs have become more complex.

But let's begin from the start, the bug in question is a crash: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… 🧵 1/5


Ping @Mozilla : le problème n'est pas limité à Google/Chrome mais aussi à #Firefox qui se base sur cette super techno de "Safe Browsing" qui flag les serveurs auto-hébergé sans aucune transparence sur le pourquoi exact (et pas que ceux avec #YunoHost) ... Ce serait cool si vous pouviez vous aussi faire pression de votre côté pour arrêter cet enfumage et garder un web libre et ouvert