Firefox with enhanced privacy

[jos]

Mozilla’s experimental tool is designed to block outside parties like ad networks or analytics companies from tracking users through cookies and browser fingerprinting.

 

It’s available in the Firefox Developer Edition on Windows, Mac and Linux, and Firefox Aurora on Android, Mozilla said Friday. The tool might cause some data-hungry websites to not load properly, Mozilla said. Users can unblock specific websites if they wish. The enhancements also better identify unsafe browser add-ons that could install malware or collect user information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, meanwhile, is trying to develop a new standard for the “Do Not Track” browser setting to make it more effective.

 

private modes today only actually manage to do one major thing: not track your history within said browser. But add-ons might track it, or ads might track it, or just about any other thing on the internet that you encounter might. The new option that will probably soon be available in Firefox will stop ads on websites from tracking you, will hide your fingerprint, and will block add-ons that do not meet privacy requirements. This will affect ad-revenue.. I think next companies will block ads natively.

 

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2971652/security/mozilla-tests-a-true-stealth-mode-for-firefox.html

[CydiaDash]

Dayum dude, your all over the news topics in these past hours

[Yog]

Hmm...this might bring me back to firefox.

[Guest]

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[Guest]

Ad-block + This = The AdTerminator2000 

[Darkman]

Another reason for me to enjoy using Firefox.

[deviant88]

Why cant microsoft do the same with windowze?

[Ridska]

this is why i abandoned the firefox ship and switched to chrome .

[TheMissxu]

I wonder if sites like linustechtips.com can calculate the number of ads displayed for a specific user. They could, then, grant the top 50% a badge, then top 25% another bage, and finally the top 10% of ads loaded another badge. This would entice many people to disable ad block. There could be abuse, but they'd profit anyways.
 

As to someone who drops below the badge requirement, you could give them the option to diaply a "past top 10% user" badge and the likes

[Enferk]

Cool. I might change to firefox in future!  B)

[Hexram]

Awesome

[Timmy-P]

Coming from a Waterfox user, this is great news to me.  I wonder if Edge, Opera, and/or Chrome will follow suit(e[?]) and do something similar, but only time will tell.

[Tataffe]

Isn't this what Ghostery already does? Great news, if so.

 

Firefox + AdBlock Plus + Ghostery is my way to go.

[LAwLz]

I wonder if sites like linustechtips.com can calculate the number of ads displayed for a specific user. They could, then, grant the top 50% a badge, then top 25% another bage, and finally the top 10% of ads loaded another badge. This would entice many people to disable ad block. There could be abuse, but they'd profit anyways.

 

As to someone who drops below the badge requirement, you could give them the option to diaply a "past top 10% user" badge and the likes

I don't know how LTT does it, but some ad companies only give out money for ads clicked, not displayed. I think that's how Google does it, and encouraging people to click on the ads breaks the TOS.

[ozziestig]

Mozilla takes the job of protecting your privacy very seriously. Sometimes, it seems, the job requires causing a little collateral damage — like killing web-based ads.

 

A brand new Developer version of Firefox has been released, and it includes our first real look at Mozilla’s enhanced tracking protection features. So far, it looks like a major change from the woefully ineffective Do Not Track. The new tracking protection is so effective, in fact, that if you fire it up on a website there’s a good chance that you’ll see it ad-free.

So this seems to be a step in a good direction by mozilla having a better choice in choosing if you want to be tracked, at least the side-effect is a good one some web based ads disabled.

 

Ad networks and content providers didn’t like it one bit when Microsoft decided to turn Do Not Track support on by default in Internet Explorer. If that move ruffled their feathers, you can bet they’ll be absolutely outraged to see their ads broken by the new tracking protection in Firefox.

Well I would like to think that people who use firefox now are power users and would normally have other addons that help block ads and stuff.

 

http://www.geek.com/apps/mozilla-just-built-an-ad-blocker-into-firefox-1631245/

[Syntaxvgm]

they should build a better browser into Firefox 

 

 

just sayin it'snotasgoodasitusedtobeneitherischrome :lol:

[That Norwegian Guy]

Just like Maxthon did 4 months ago, however giving adblock plus for free.

[Opeth747]

they should build a better browser into Firefox 

 

 

just sayin it'snotasgoodasitusedtobeneitherischrome :lol:

You win the internet for today.

[Guest]

they should build a better browser into Firefox 

 

 

just sayin it'snotasgoodasitusedtobeneitherischrome :lol:

 

MS Edge is here to save us

 

hopefully

[Syntaxvgm]

MS Edge is here to save us

 

hopefully

As a web developer, I must laugh

though, as long as it receives updates automatically and doesn't segment the users to the point I'm supporting a browser that 5 years out of date because apparently people will update to the new windows for the new IE, I'm happy 

[Windows2000]

Don't companies that develop web browsers gain revenue from ad-clicks as well? (They received revenue somehow)

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox

I don't see how this is beneficial to Mozilla.

 

Also, since many people are so reliant on Google's services, Chrome is typically hands down the way to go.

I just wish Chrome was more efficient, and Flash got killed off much more quickly as flash just eats my memory up.

DIE ADOBE FLASH, DIE

[Syntaxvgm]

Don't companies that develop web browsers gain revenue from ad-clicks as well? (They received revenue somehow)

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox

I don't see how this is beneficial to Mozilla.

 

Also, since many people are so reliant on Google's services, Chrome is typically hands down the way to go.

I just wish Chrome was more efficient, and Flash got killed off much more quickly as flash just eats my memory up.

DIE ADOBE FLASH, DIE

mozilla is a non-profit, and that's why I wish dearly they had their shit together.

They haven't had their shit together since...well since firefox 4

[ozziestig]

mozilla is a non-profit, and that's why I wish dearly they had their shit together.

They haven't had their shit together since...well since firefox 4

god I still remembering using firefox 3.x on xp a good few years ago.

[HarmFull]

This is the main reason I advise all the non tech savy people I know to use an adblocker!

 

It helps keeping a lot of crap of their PC's!

[PerfectTemplar]

@LinusTech loves ads and will be disappointed by this. We're all scum remember.