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by javaun
4233 days ago
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That's right. The Mozilla platform technology is great, we are still working out a few kinks. The blocklist we're using is a customized version provided by Disconnect.me. Mozilla's UX for Tracking Protection needs a lot of work, it's just not done yet. We need to do a lot of work to understand what users want. Hence the experiment. There are also many third-party add-ons out there: NoScript, Privacy Badger, Disconnect, DoNotTrackMe, Ghostery, etc. I don't think we want to compete with them but rather give them all more powerful tools to create more anti-tracking options for users. (EDITED to remove pronouns, fix misspells) |
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I must say Im a little unhappy about installing 10 addons just to have more privacy. Some slow down Firefox more than others, and it takes time to setup everything.
I would hope for Polaris to be a one-switch-thing that doesn't require much or any setup (the door hangers stuff seems to be just fine now that i tried it) and that doesn't affect performance the wrong way (in fact id hope for the feature to just be on by default...)
The ads issue is one that's difficult to deal with. If it was up to me i'd just block all ads on the pretext that Firefox is now clearly the underdog and deal with consequences when marketshare rises again.
One issue with DNT-style whitelisting is that anyone can say they dont track you but still have all the information needed for tracking (and optionally they can also lie, or half-lie, or what not if they want to).
In my testing i noticed that other addons - while not as neatly implemented as tracking protection with polaris - do block a lot more tracking stuff right now (which is fine. polaris is new)