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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 Data 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 (it's Firefox but with privacy prioritized default settings)
sudo pacman -S flatpak
flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-community
## 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 I'd build muscle memory to go turn it off, but at random updates infrequent enough that I don't 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
Mull does this by default.
Can we disable this on mobile?
Yes, but the point is that you shouldn't have to.
I don't think we have about:config on mobile. I'm not sure we have this option in the mobile settings yet. The "share with Mozilla" thing was already disabled so I'm guessing it's not the new one.
It's available on Firefox Nightly.
Firefox ESR creates some safe distance between you and these "wonderful" new features that everybody "wants".
And plenty enough time for a user.js template to be tweaked accordingly.