By default now Firefox for Android shares an extra link with TRACKING for advertising itself. This is the features that everyone loves.
Ok, buried in the menu there's an option to disable this shit. But it's infuriating that a "please spam my friends and track the opening rate of my links" option is enabled by default
How is a tracked link at all privacy respecting?
Yeah, wtf, it's additionally ridiculous because it contradicts FF's own option to copy links without tracking info, which they implemented recently.
@just2look I am not sure........I just want Firefox to have more market share and not be beholden to G00gley eyes.
FF gaining a bigger market share by being shitty defeats the purpose of using FF.
@just2look How and why is it tracking?
Its a unique link that Mozilla knows is tied to your device, and can see what devices open the link. That is pretty invasive tracking.
It’s a simple toggle in the settings menu to turn on/off. The people who care about privacy will toggle it off.
If it defaults to off, that's fine. I'm tired of constantly having to go into settings for everything to see if they added some invasive bullshit.
Not just that, but the settings don't sync between devices either.
It defaults to on. You can disable it under Settings > Advanced > Link sharing
I assumed it defaulted to on. I use Vanadium on mobile, and don't use WhatsApp. So I wasn't going to try to check.
I just meant that defaulting to off is the only way 'features' like this are even remotely acceptable.
Ah, “just a prank bro” argument. This is how ANTI-privacy corporations erode the level of expectations. Firefox, as a privacy advocate should absolutely NOT do that. If the choice is between being respectful of your users and being dead - I’d rather see it dead. We already have Microsoft Edge and a dozen other bs browsers that treat us like cattle. I think the general sentiment is that Firefox does not do that - or was not supposed to, anyway.
I never made an argument or said said it was a prank.
FF gives users a choice. It is our choice to make, not theirs. To me, that is respecting their users.