On 12/18/2024 02:13 PM, Dave Close wrote:
Don Marti wrote:
The current two preferences that it sets to false are:
dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled
browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored
I tried that in a new tab, with a page up with several ads. I already
had the first
On Wed, 2024-12-18 at 10:23 -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> The advantage of setting these in /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json
> is that they automatically take effect for all new users and profiles
Until such time that they change the names of the variables...
Any time programmers do annoying anti-
Don Marti wrote:
>The current two preferences that it sets to false are:
>
> dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled
> browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored
Thanks, Don. I'm adding these to my list of configuration variables to
disable. I'd gone away from Firefox for a while, seeking
begin Bob Marčan via users quotation of Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 03:53:07PM +:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:14:12 -0800
> "Don Marti" wrote:
>
> > On 12/17/24 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 18:31 -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> > >> problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracki
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:14:12 -0800
"Don Marti" wrote:
> On 12/17/24 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> > On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 18:31 -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> >> problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracking (see bug report from
> >> Alan Cox
> >
> That's where writing /etc/firefox/policies/p
On 12/17/24 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 18:31 -0800, Don Marti wrote:
problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracking (see bug report from
Alan Cox
I notice that the two options in "Firefox Data Collection and Use" of "
"Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction
On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 18:31 -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracking (see bug report from
> Alan Cox
I notice that the two options in "Firefox Data Collection and Use" of "
"Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and
"Allow Firefox to ins
problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracking (see bug report from
Alan Cox here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297635
(partial) solution: It is possible to set up policies to turn stuff
like this off. I made a simple RPM to just deploy the policy file (so
I can make sure to set th
