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Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites
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this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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He wasn't fired. He voluntarily left. And thus Mozilla is left with an incompetent CEO whose only aim is to increase her paycheck year after year, despite pathetic market share results for FF. Enjoy that.
That said, nobody cares about your "friendly remainders". We're talking about software here, not politics.
And, to stay on topic, yes, it happened to me that Strict FP broke some website, in particular those displaying a frame with a map or similar stuff. So I've resorted to use "standard" FP myself.
Technology and ethics and politics are not airgapped magically distinct things. Pretending that they are is a strategic political choice you are actively making.
Ok. I'm a bad person because I enjoy using a given browser. I get that.
Another one that goes on my ignore list. Bye.
This is a straw man argument; no one said you're a bad person for using a certain browser.
This is what they are criticising you about. You could be using Edge or Chrome, it wouldn't matter here, that wouldn't make you a bad person. The point is that pretending there is no connection when there is clearly a huge relevance here is massive.
In the imagination of upvotes-hungry virtue-signaling people, of course.