Shots fired π₯
those tables usually are wrong or misleading, i don't like them.
Edge for example has the 3rd party cookie blocking and it works ok, so why it's "no" and not "somewhat" or similar?
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I dont see the line "3rd party cookie blocking"
should be "prevent sites from tracking". Or they carefully chose that sentence in order to give a "no" to edge and "somewhat" to chrome and opera
Firefox uses a built-in domain blocklist for tracking protection, in addition to blocking third party cookies
Although that would not explain why Chrome and Opera pass that at all to begin with IMO. Maybe these browsers enforce their own additional data silos or other deviations from specs when in Private Browsing mode. I know Chrome for example shrinks the storage provision for various JS APIs down to practically nothing when in Incognito mode, which can break things like Teams Web etc when you start sharing files.
Either way though all marketing ever is, is just a selection of carefully chosen words. In this case, browsers too, as there's no Brave there (I'm not a fan of Brave anyway, but worth noting)
Precisely why these "feature comparisons" are bogus.
It's this.
Firefox' total cookie protection does not block third party cookies, it isolates them in separate jars for each website....
Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate βcookie jarβ for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to only that website. No other websites can reach into the cookie jars that donβt belong to them and find out what the other websitesβ cookies know about you β giving you freedom from invasive ads and reducing the amount of information companies gather about you.
The 'Enforce users choice' is just GPC on by default I believe. Which means nothing since it is still voluntary.
By that logic Linux supports windows because I can run it using wine.
Yeah Iβm confused about what tracking Chrome blocks that Chredge does not.
Does it, though? Or does Microsoft come under the second party label
if i enable it, most websites don't load ads at all, including MSN news that's ad-ridden
I like using Firefox, but it's a bit ironic to have google analytics tracking on the page you declare to protect the users privacy.
They never claimed firefox.com was privacy focused. Only your browser.
Just doesn't sit well But at least it's open source
I didn't get that but I guess because I have a plugin to give me nice backgrounds on new tabs.
But yeah, shots fired. Nice!
The only issue is that only already existing Firefox users see this, and we already know this.
Tabbliss represent
Yassssss
True, but I can share it with friends who already think I'm weird because I use Linux and they can have another reason why they think I am weird.
i probably had it but closed the tab before it loaded
Every brother has one of these on their site, and somehow that browser always wins
So does Simplex Chat.
Im just over here using firefox since it was still netscape navigator 2.0.
Another update? Okay
They need to add a row for ~~"Owned by a foreign superpower"~~"Owned by the Chinese government" and a check for Opera.
Everyone knows the world is divided into:
- United States
- Everyone Else
How is Mozilla owned by the US government?
On one hand, yeah. On the other hand, that could be a point in its favor, depending on your threat model. After all, if you're American, China can't prosecute you for secrets it learns from Opera the way the FBI could prosecute you for secrets it learns from Google.
On the third hand it's pointless cause they all buy each other's data anyways.
Honestly I don't see the reason they put that there. I already own Firefox why are you trying to win me over?
For the newbies
be sure to run on top of linux otherwise...
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