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Jessie Nabein :neofox_peek_owo:

@mcc i will watch closely to see if this drops in ESR and thus IceCat.... hunch says yes, though ESR is "corporate aligned" in a sense....

13 July at 13:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on wetdry.world
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mcc

@jessienab It seems like all IceCat would need to do is change one preference default from true to false. Although I suspect also that Firefox will also *eventually* change this preference default from true to false, or add a clickthrough box like Chrome has, once a lawyer talks to them about how the GDPR works

13 July at 15:19 | Open on mastodon.social
MarjorieR

@jessienab @mcc the next version of firefox-esr is based on 128, the one with this ad tracking turned on, so will inherit this.
Possibly some of the (linux) distributions will turn the default to 'off' in their repository versions. Debian has been known to correct 'bad' defaults in the past.

13 July at 17:46 | Open on social.linux.pizza
mcc

@marjolica @jessienab Would it make sense for someone to bring this to the attention of debian and request that when they pick up 128 they do target this default for default disabling?

(I don't know if I would be the right person since I don't use Debian, I use Ubuntu, which ships Firefox via "Snap")

13 July at 17:48 | Open on mastodon.social
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