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Thats interesting thanks!

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)