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by madeofpalk 700 days ago
> The scare quotes here are uncalled for: it is privacy-preserving

It is net negative though.

It is more privacy-preserving to just not implement this in the first place.

It is baffling why Firefox ships with this on by default. Even Chrome prompted users with a (misleading) dialog box to turn it on or off.

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> It is baffling why Firefox ships with this on by default.

Not really. The reason is that Mozilla wants to make money by selling your data/preferences. Probably so that the incompetent CEO can get even more obscene "compensation". They just bought a spyware adtech company.

Do they get money from selling this?