Yup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are opt-in by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there. 
Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.
Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.
But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.
Doesn't that sound great?
Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.
But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice? 
Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.
fire foxes 🦊 
@cuchaz Industry leads the way. One needs to accept defeat in the long run and literally do a Adrian @alcinnz and make a new browser or stick to 70year old protocol still going called FTP to serve text and images! Wouldn't be that bad - faster load, clicks aer auto-named by assets, people value you visits...
#Capitalists should make us better - it's often us that prolongs accepting they make the rule / games (badly) so time to hope off at some point, which could be for internet itself but oh that's a bit raw to saw and too soon as they still need to bleed us from here :)
Hope it wasn't off topic in the end! What goes around... surrounds you! fire foxes 🦊
fire foxes 🦊
fire foxes 🦊
