Can confirm. Noticed that stupid fucking opt-out setting after the last update and shook my fist at the sky. Do better Firefox, ffs.
Heads up yall:
By deselecting/disabling everything under Firefox Collection and Use it should also disable Website Advertising Preferences which is the Privacy-preserving attribution (PPA) as mentioned in the article
That and I would honestly recommend installing Librewolf as an alternative browser (itβs Firefox but with privacy prioritized default settings)
Installing as a Flatpak via Flathub
sudo pacman -S flatpak
flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-community
Installing on Arch Linux via Yay:
## Yay Install
sudo pacman -S git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay/
makepkg -si
## Enter super user/or root password when prompted.
## Package installs with Yay
yay -S librewolf-bin
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In About:config you can find other more troublesome privacy issues
Normandy
User studies
Crash reports (include URLs)
Shopping partners
Pocket api
Fucking Pocket. It keeps getting re-enabled. Not on every update, otherwise Iβd build muscle memory to go turn it off, but at random updates infrequent enough that I donβt always remember to go check it.
Make a user.js file and put it in your Mozilla profile config dir.
It overrides the settings before launch, so if it was reenabled by remote setting updates, it will be kept disabled. (Do this for any setting you want to make persistent)
extensions.pocket.enabled false
- you can also delete any api URL to be sure it doesnβt call home.
Mull does this by default.
Can we disable this on mobile?
I donβt think we have about:config on mobile. Iβm not sure we have this option in the mobile settings yet. The βshare with Mozillaβ thing was already disabled so Iβm guessing itβs not the new one.
Firefox ESR creates some safe distance between you and these βwonderfulβ new features that everybody βwantsβ.
And plenty enough time for a user.js template to be tweaked accordingly.
