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by croes 20 days ago
I see three:

Standard

Strict

Custom

To me custom is something I define between Standard and Strict and not the next level after Strict. Strict already mentions that sites can break, so I'm pretty sure people associate the setting with breakage.

> Stronger protection, but may cause some sites or content to break.

Additionally Strict says :

Firefox blocks the following:

Social media trackers

Cross-site cookies in all windows

Tracking content in all windows

Cryptominers

Known and suspected fingerprinters

It's confusing if Known and suspected fingerprinters doesn't include resist fingerprinting. resist fingerprinting isn't even an option in Custom so how do ordinary users know where to set that option. You know, those users you say won't associate the Strict setting with breaking pages depite the fact that it clearly says so. Some kind of Schrödinger's user? Too dumb to understand the warning, but smart enough to know special settings?

You may avoid unnecessary bug reports that way but maybe only because users don't recognice that they are tracked per fingerprinting. It's not like websites would tell them.

Feels like Mozilla traded their time for my privacy.