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1. Visit about:config

2. Set dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false

I've added the configuration value to the following page:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_...

I'm not affiliated with Mozilla, but I do understand how wikis work. ;-)

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Unfortunately about config no longer exists for mobile devices

about:config works on Android Firefox nightly. Just checked.

hm, should I use the stable version, but be tracked,

or should I use Nightly, and risk crashes and catastrophic loss of data

choices, choices

or use an unbranded fork that has about:config enabled

amazing, the one app that has access to everything that matters in your digital life, and you'd be willing to use a non-standard source?

The standard source comes with malware, and the one big alternative comes with malware. Such is the state of the tech industry (even nonprofits) in 2024. Random individuals like Raymond Hill are far more trustworthy than large organizations.

I believe the unbranded Firefox build on F-Droid (called Fennec) enabled it even on stable releases.

I just found this setting in mobile, but I don't know if it's the same feature: Settings > Data Collection > Marketing

I don't think so. I already had the setting visible in the UI disabled, but the thing in about:config was still on.

There is chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml but many options shown there are nonfunctional. The relevant option is listed but I'm not sure if setting it to false has any effect.

Edit: Just found out that on that link above, you can set general.aboutConfig.enable to true to enable about.config.

It looks like the xml page and the about.config one are the same, as the modifications I made are synced.

Thank you so much for that! I was missing the ability to configure a very important option for me in Stable (layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override), but couldn't keep using Nightly because of its instability... You're a lifesaver!

Use Mull[1].

It has sane defaults and about:config is accessible.

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

Looks like the windows build for 127 didn't have it but it's there in 128. Updating to 128.0 adds the preference (defaulted to true) and also the new "Website Advertising Preferences", which seems to control the same preference. I would just uncheck the box as it's right there on the Security page.

Thanks, I just updated to 128, and found the setting under Settings -> Security -> Website Advertising Preferences. I wish I could be surprised that this was opt-out by default, but when you know how Mozilla is funded it all clicks.

Setting dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false changed the user agent on my mac to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

> I'm not affiliated with Mozilla, but I do understand how wikis work. ;-)

You don't seem to understand why this is problematic though, so I'll explain it to you: enabling tracking when you know that one of your selling points to your users is respect for privacy is a huge breach of trust.

To be fair, I don't think that has been an active Mozilla mission for close to a decade now.

They mostly exist as a Google owned shell now...

Maybe it hasn't been an active Mozilla mission for a decade in practice, but they did paid it lip service many times in the past decade, so still counts as breach of trust.

> To be fair, I don't think that has been an active Mozilla mission for close to a decade now.

Ok, maybe they should update firefox's home page, then?

Very first lines:

> Get the browser that protects what's important

> No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers. Just a lightning fast browser that doesn’t sell you out.

GP did say "active mission". I'm sure Google had "Do no evil" on their site for maybe 4 years after they in fact started being evil.

What do you expect thangalin to do with this understanding?

Be less pretentious.

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