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What is Firefox supposed to do? (www.spacebar.news)
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[-] hedge@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does anyone know if the PPA/Personal Pan Pizza Privacy/Whatever thing has an about:config entry or is it controlled from about:preferences#privacy?

EDIT: To answer my own question, the about:config entry is "dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled" which should be set to "false"; for those of us who use arkenfox, you should add this to your user-overrides.js file and then run the updater:

user_pref("dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled", false); // Disable Privacy-Preserving Attribution

This is correct AFAICT.

EDIT EDIT: Also, possibly naive question: Why can't Mozilla/Firefox just ask for donations like Wikipedia does instead of sneaking around, which they sort of seem to do once in a while?

[-] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago
  1. PPA doesn't make Mozilla money.
  2. Firefox is developed by Mozilla Corp, which can't take donations. Mozilla Foundation does do fundraising drives, but that's mostly for their public advocacy (which, ironically, may be where the idea for PPA originated).
  3. PPA has a checkbox in about:preferences.
[-] hedge@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

  1. Ok (um, then they do it why?) My attention has been really divided for the past couple days, so I haven't really read very deeply into PPA.

  2. Didn't know that; maybe they should reconfigure themselves to be more like Wikipedia? 🤷 It seems like Wikipedia has way more users than FF, and they're able to keep going on the small donations they request from time to time.

  3. Indeed it does! And it might be nice if it wasn't checked by default like it was in mine, but ok, I guess.

Also, what have hamsters ever done to you? 😉

[-] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

The support article explains the rationale.

Unchecked by default would render the experiment useless.

[-] mindyabeesnes@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

PPA/Personal Pan Pizza Privacy

Mmmm digital personal pan pizza 🤤

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