Bas Schouten (@[email protected])
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@[email protected] Again, and as Bobby has explained at length here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/ This is making privacy a privilege for the people that work to inform and educate themselves on the topic. People shouldn't need to do that, everyone deserves a more private browser. Privacy features, in Firefox, are not meant to be opt-in. They need to be the default. If you are 'completely anti-ads' (i.e. even if their implementation is private), you probably use an ad blocker. So are unaffected by this.

Just wanted to surface this comment, because not enough people are cognizant of the fact that adblockers do their job and prevent any PPA submissions.

  • lol@discuss.tchncs.de
    172·
    6 months ago

    adblockers do their job and prevent any PPA submissions.

    Does it actually prevent all PPA submissions or just submissions for blocked ads, because they weren’t shown in the first place? If an ad managed to slip through, would the impression still be reported?

      • lol@discuss.tchncs.de
        81·
        6 months ago

        no ad related traffic gets out

        But the outgoing ad-related traffic (i.e. submission of DAP reports to aggregation services) is generated by Firefox itself, not some website. I don’t think adblockers have any influence on that.

        • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
          7·
          6 months ago

          I’m inclined to believe the multiple parties that have said that adblockers protect you from PPA.

          • sunzu@kbin.run
            5·
            6 months ago

            Logic being that blocker won’t led the ad load?

            So nothing to track?

            • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
              2·
              6 months ago

              Won’t let it load, so there’s nothing to send and even if something loads it will be blocked like when you try and visit a site in your blocklist.