In fairness, Strict Tracking Protection is not a Firefox problem; it is very clearly a Firefox feature. The problem is the sites. X is not really an important site anyway.
no, the problem is that sites can _afford_ to block firefox, because their share is low enough that they can take the hit.
What we need to do, as tech evangalists, is to push the marketshare of firefox higher, so that they cannot be ignored by sites, due to significant traffic. This is how the open internet can preserve both privacy and control of the computing environment.
if your friends and/or family isn't using firefox (this includes mobile), nag them to switch. If you are a tech support for your extended family, push firefox onto them (and install adblock while you're at it).
If you control a company's IT infrastructure, push firefox as the default browser, over chrome.
The internet is repeating the microsoft IE days with chrome, but without the shittiness that made chrome a possible barrier breaker (chrome is good enough that most people aren't complaining).
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
FWIW it seems like the browser market is shifting away from third party cookies anyways, so I'm not sure this is a huge issue.
there was barely a slope to begin with, you’ve got chrome in a majority and safari in a minority and then Firefox as a rounding error. Obviously if you crush safari, google is just gonna go mask-off full-manifest-v3 and plenty of other sites would be happy to follow. it was obvious from the start, people were just happy they finally got a legislated “win” to the android/iOS debate.
“Don’t be evil” was dead for at least 10 years, and people pay lip service to acknowledging this and then go right on acting like google has their best interests at heart anyway.
Management has been so bad that Firefox is hard to recommend now. Servo is a great engine but the company behind it isn't earning support and I think it's not going to last. I'll keep using Firefox forks until they don't work, but I won't support Mozilla by using their product directly anymore.
Unfortunately, and astoundingly, nobody has bothered to create anything remotely competitive with Xitter, even at this late date.
Yeah, and if everyone would just agree to pinky swear to never engage in wars again and then fully disarm, we would achieve eternal world peace. All they gotta do is just stop doing those things.
Unfortunately, things don’t quite work as simply as the way you imagine they do in the real world.
Doesn’t matter if it’s the sites that are the problem, Firefox has lost momentum to such a degree that sites don’t care anymore. So they should tread carefully with features like this.
Firefox taking a hard nose approach here makes it impossible to use this on parents / grandparents computers to help keep them safe.
I don’t mind losing Twitter… but I can’t speak for others in my family. Just sucks. But on popular sites that run blockers, there should be like a little pop-up that says, “Give me access, and let this dumpster fire burn.”
So even when they still had a considerable market share, these kind of stances may actually be detrimental to their user base.
Using Firefox in its default configuration shouldn't break websites.
The threat to privacy is well documented.
It's enough for a some people to consider such websites as not important, at least to them.