On Fri, 2025-02-14 at 15:24 -0700, home user via users wrote: > I use Firefox. There's that little shield icon just to the left of > the address bar. I'm amazed (and concerned) at how many web sites > that shield "says" are trying to track, cross-site track, and > fingerprint. ...and how many sites refuse to function unless I > disable Firefox's blocking. ...even charities and government sites. > Messages in Thunderbird can be surprisingly tricky and subtle, too. > I dare not say more about that. So many sites, these days, are a cobbled together conglomeration of dozens of scripts to do /cool/ things that they can't figure out how to do buy themselves, and to handle the advertising that they sold their soul to. Never pay any *webmaster* extortionate expertise fees if that's the kind of thing they're going to do. Also there's far less altruistic sites, where information was published just to benefit others. It's "what can I publish to rake in dosh," otherwise known as click-bait. If you block scripts and/or cookies, much of that stuff just fails (the tracking, and the entire website). I use NoScript, it blocks a lot of crap, and stops my browser needlessly running the CPU at full pelt. But there's plenty of sites I have to carefully start enabling things to get them to work. I only want those things to be allowed with the site I'm viewing, not globally allow a caching farm or cloud server. Because that server farm is used by a plethora of sites that I don't trust. Neither directly, or to share things between each other that doesn't help me in any way. My DNS server also blackholes a variety of advertising and tracking sites. That took care of a lot of things without browser plug-ins. But with browsers moving away from using traditional DNS servers, that benefit will diminish in time. The claim is that it will help with people not having to solve network problems, the reality will be that it will help with tracking as they pretend to reduce tracking by moving away from cookies. I get very little advertising following me around because of those steps. But on the Android phone where it's harder to run browsers with plug-ins, and it often runs from the mobile service provider instead of my WiFi, I notice how much of the crap does follow me around. My ISP pissed me off, so I looked at a few alternative ISP adverts, now most of my adverts were for ISP deals (which is far less annoying than lots of other adverts). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
