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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you(mastodon.social)

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Fugtig Fisk@feddit.dk
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WTF… i thought this was just click bait but went to check on my phone as i am not at my PC right now

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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I’m using Mull.

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khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Mine was off, just checked.

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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Use Mull

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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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It was on for me too, wtf…

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Swarfega@lemm.ee
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Just checked mine and it’s all disabled

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laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
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These are old options. I checked these off long ago.

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dman87@sh.itjust.works
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I’m on 128 on my phone. I just checked and both of those are disabled for me.

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MrShankles@reddthat.com
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Idk what 128 is on a phone, but my galaxy s21 had everything still off. Guess I’ll have to keep an eye on it

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ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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build number (version) of Firefox, which is the software in question.

“Galaxy S21” is the model name for a physical Samsung phone, which isn’t relevant to the topic.

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shottymcb@lemm.ee
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Same

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refalo@programming.dev
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double same

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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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I’m on 128 on my phone and it was on for me, I definitely didn’t turn those on myself. wtf.

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maniajack@lemmy.world
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Here’s the info about it: https://mzl.la/3AcmG8q

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randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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I know, that’s awful. I also turn it off. But that’s actually different than the new feature mentioned in this post. This has existed for years already (I think)

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pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
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I’m using mull fork of Firefox which doesn’t even have these settings, the tracking features are completely removed from the browser.

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pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
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I mostly see telemetry requests getting blocked in my firewall. Is there anything else I’ve missed?

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