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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Rustdesk controversy

The whole discussion on that pull request is extremely sketchy, IMO.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Tuba is now added to Gnome Circle. That's a good news.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It’s about their FakeSpot subsidiary.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/review-checker-review-quality#w_protect-your-privacy

Protect your privacy Firefox is committed to empowering you with information about review reliability while respecting your privacy. We use Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) for Review Checker. When Review Checker is turned on, we use information about the products you visit on Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart to analyze the reviews, but by using OHTTP we ensure Mozilla cannot link you or your device to the products you have viewed. OHTTP uses encryption and a third party intermediary server to offer a technical guarantee that this is the case: all Mozilla learns from this network request is that someone, somewhere, looked at a given product.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Also not what I said.

Source: 2022 Hey look, years ago. And your other page was 2018.

Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023

(Assuming this is about Pocket) Is it too much to expect from you to know the difference between aggregated non-PII data vs PII data?

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yes, like publishing a new article every day just to prove their commitment to end-users' privacy.

Incremental updates to articles, hosted literally on home page, with details of newer privacy features is so old school.

Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Source: 2022

Incorrect, that's actually from 2022 B.C.

And your other page was 2018

Correct, the snap of article from 2018 looks exactly identical to 2024 instance with ZERO modifications. Mozilla finally gave us on Privacy it seems, as no one bothered to update that page since 2018.

Wait a sec, they also haven't updated this article as well since 2020. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/chrome/

/s

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

~~but Mozilla itself doesn’t want to broach the topic.~~

Again, a reminder that Mozilla plans to continue support for the Manifest Version 2 blocking WebRequest API (this API powers, for example, uBlock Origin) while simultaneously supporting Manifest Version 3.

Source: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2022/12/02/webextensions-mv3-webmidi-opensearch-pip-updates-and-more-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-128/

~~Years ago, Mozilla would explicitly call ad blocking a privacy feature, and proclaim it explicitly.~~

Ahem! https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/ > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/adblocker/

Cooking up conspiracy theory instead of research is easy, is not it?

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

... because Mozilla already clarified their position on this last year.

TL;DR

No, Mozilla is NOT ditching manifest v2.

Well what’s happening with MV2 you ask? Great question – in case you missed it, Google announced late last year their plans to resume their MV2 deprecation schedule. Firefox, however, has no plans to deprecate MV2 and will continue to support MV2 extensions for the foreseeable future. And even if we re-evaluate this decision at some point down the road, we anticipate providing a notice of at least 12 months for developers to adjust accordingly and not feel rushed.

Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Those won't can access it from Firefox on Linux, use User-Agent Switcher add-on as a workaround.

 

A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we yet don’t know how big, and we might not for years.

Mehta declared on Monday that Google was liable for violating antitrust laws, vindicating the Department of Justice and a coalition of states that sued the tech giant in 2020. The next step — deciding on remedies for its illegal conduct — begins next month. Both parties must submit a proposed schedule for remedy proceedings by September 4th and then appear at a status conference on September 6th.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just installed it, and my initial impression -

  • Thanks for dark mode :)
  • UI responsiveness is good.
  • Need an option to increase/decrease width of reading pane.
  • Need multiple themes like Wikipedia website.
  • Require smooth scrolling (I'm on 240 Hz monitor but scroll doesn't feel smooth on this app, though apparently uses GPU acceleration)
 

For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with this GNOME Shell merge request for being able to disable X11 support too.

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