Tracking Protection

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Tracking Protection

Unread post by Slave » 2015-03-19, 22:25

Came across this blog post from a Mozilla employee: http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com/2 ... ction.html

Any plans to integrate this feature or something similar into Pale Moon?

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Re: Tracking Protection

Unread post by Moonchild » 2015-03-19, 22:44

I see no reason to favor any particular privacy data blocking method over another in the core. People can choose what they want. If you want the same functionality baked into Firefox, then install the disconnect extension. If you prefer something else, then you can take your pick of others ;)
In addition, blocking functionality should be something by choice of the user at all times.
I personally would prefer something that interacts with the content policy manager rather than something that site in the network layer (and would be less efficient at preventing requests to begin with).

As a side note: lightbeam is a terrible measuring tool; it will show links even when no connections are actually made to third party servers.
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