I think i live it on… Unless somebody find any security flaw or something.
The question is all about how much it’s privacy preserving not about security.
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I don’t want them tracking me if that is for data collection for ads whether that is “privacy friendly” or not. Better to disable up it I would think?
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so
about:config
globalprivacycontrol set to true
guess that’s all ?
Toot from a mozilla developer
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It was not enabled by default after the update on my Firefox. I’m in Germany. Wonder why it’s different on some computers. Have to check my laptops later.
Seems like Mozilla is now an advertisement company since their focus has shifted there.
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Friendly reminder Brave Software Inc. is also one.
To be clear, my 
is for the majority of Firefox’s users. Not Mozilla.
They need money to do what they do, and the majority of users simply ignore this fact. Maybe they should include a donation tab that opens every time people launch the browser to annoy people into donating. → I wouldn’t want this, but… 
I saw the below quote posted by one of the top creatives in my region. I was gonna say to them that unless they use their reach to influence others in the industry to make changes, then they should shut up. I’ve been pleading with them for almost a year.
But I didn’t feel like burning that bridge today. 
“The main incentive for making changes is a build up of negative experiences.”
They are right, and I hate how true it is.
Why do we have to wait for everything to go wrong before scrambling to fix things?
→ Rhetorical.
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The way advertisement isn’t done isn’t morally right because on top of of all the personal data collection advertisement companies hire psychologists to apply human psychology to the way they advertise so you are more likely to buy when watching or seen an ad. I’ve been using Axe deodorant, Axe shower gel and Axe aftershave for years and I haven’t seen anything happen to me that their ads show will happen to you if you use Axe.
Edit: I did donate for a while to Mozilla.
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Breathe …let it go. 
They are getting several hundred million $ a year from Google already and barely invest anything from that in the browser.
I use ublock origin also but still disabled it.
Mozilla does not, in fact, “rely on donations” to carry out their mission. In fact, if you removed donations from the yearly revenue entirely, it would have no impact on Mozilla’s ability to pay for any of their expenditures. And Mozilla could not pay more than a small fraction of their bills from the yearly donations.
So what is the alternative here?
- Fork the engine and get actual browser engine devs to branch completely away from Firefox as a base?
- Or continue to hope that forks are sustainable without their base?
Either way, the base project needs to be paid for the continued existence of the engine.
I’ve seen people mention the other two engines (I’ve even tested one — Servo), but are people willing to support them before they put out a stable release?
I’d say the best option is to completely branch away from Firefox with a fully-community-funded browser engine, or use Servo. But, again, will the community do their part?
No the best thing we can hope for is that Mozilla will get their shit together, invest more in the browser and reclaim market share in the double digits. Just enough to still get all that Google money so they can’t be accused of having a browser monopoly (which is the only reason they still give Mozilla money anyway).
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