Honestly?
Yes, it is shitty. But if you at all care about privacy you should be monitoring your software anyway. You never know when a previously “good” companies will do something you disagree with
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simple@lemm.ee 3 months agoIf this thing needs to be present, the option should be there to toggle on, not off.
This is my takeaway in general. The idea of this sounds fine, but the fact that they opted everyone into this experiment is really stupid considering a huge chunk of people use Firefox are privacy-conscious and care deeply about this stuff.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
dojan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, it is shitty. But if you at all care about privacy you should be monitoring your software anyway.
That’s only the case because privacy isn’t the default, and it should be. Privacy is something that’s been taken from us. I think people that don’t want to learn or care much about privacy are still entitled to it.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Pretty much, if you’re security conscious you’ll go and turn it off, if it keeps meta from lobbying against the mozzila foundation it seems like a happy middle ground.
If/when they make it so you can’t turn it off anymore that will be a different story
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Isn’t privacy invasion (ie, cookies) already ON by default? What’s the difference?
simple@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Not all cookies are harmful and some websites don’t work properly without cookies. Having cookies off by default also usually means user preferences wouldn’t be saved when you leave and return to a website.
LouNeko@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well you close and lock the door. So you kind of do opt-in. It’s just muscle memory at that point.