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privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

Unread post by Sampei Nihira » 2018-10-23, 17:03

Hi
In about:config "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" is set to false.

It is better to keep this value a default?

In the article below, the author, for the recent versions of Firefox, recommends activation:

https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/

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Re: privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-10-23, 17:17

That preference (and the similar "pbmode" preference) are used by Mozilla's Tracking Protection feature, which is disabled in Pale Moon because it doesn't work without an API key and is pretty much only intended to be used by Mozilla Firefox.
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Re: privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

Unread post by Sampei Nihira » 2018-10-23, 17:24

TH.
So even on Basilisk it does not work?

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Re: privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-10-23, 17:31

I believe it is turned off in the official releases of Basilisk, so you would have to build Basilisk yourself with the MOZ_SAFE_BROWSING config option enabled.
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Re: privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

Unread post by Sampei Nihira » 2018-10-23, 17:41

Thank you so much.

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Re: privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

Unread post by gepus » 2018-10-23, 19:44

Sampei Nihira wrote:Hi
In the article below, the author, for the recent versions of Firefox, recommends activation:

https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/
So the article recommends the use of snake oil. :)
'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used by Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything

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Re: privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-10-23, 21:07

gepus wrote:So the article recommends the use of snake oil. :)
'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used by Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything
That's what I thought it was at first, but this is actually a different feature, namely the one I linked to in my above post.
Isengrim wrote:Mozilla's Tracking Protection feature
Basically, it is a blocklist pulled from Disconnect.me to block requests to certain advertisers and trackers.
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Re: privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

Unread post by gepus » 2018-10-23, 22:19

Isengrim wrote:
Isengrim wrote:Mozilla's Tracking Protection feature
Basically, it is a blocklist pulled from Disconnect.me to block requests to certain advertisers and trackers.
I see. My bad.

I don't know how effective tracking protection performs now in Firefox 63.
At the time I was using Firefox, its built in tracking protection was always disabled since uBlock0 was my preferred choice.

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