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Firefox Privacy Tracking Defeated?

         

RedBar

5:59 pm on Feb 25, 2017 (gmt 0)

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So, a few weeks ago I noticed that on visiting a specific UK site that all of a sudden ads, an intolerable and ridiculous amount of ads, were being loaded by Firefox even though I had privacy.protectiontracking.enabled set to true ... or so I thought.

This specific site had found a way of disabling to false, I re-set it to true and all has been well until this afternoon when I visited another UK site, which loaded extremely slowly, about 30 seconds, however after it had done ...there were ads!

So off to about:config to reset to "true" but I couldn't, it was already at true, now I have ads all the time and it's driving me crazy.

Fast loading sites with ads ok, extremely slow loading sites with ads splatted everywhere including full-screen pop-overs defy belief ... honestly, if I were allowed to swear here, if I ever met any of these stupid (mfs), I would hang, draw and quarter them since THEY obviously do not realize how much damage they do to the publishing industry.

They are utterly irresponsible and simply do not care whatsoever.

Dimitri

6:22 pm on Feb 25, 2017 (gmt 0)

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Sounds like a severe security flow, a site can modify Firefox's preferences !

>> THEY obviously do not realize how much damage they do to the publishing industry. <<

This is why publisher incomes collapsed over the the years, Because it's because of this kind of things that people are using Ad blockers more and more for example.

RedBar

11:29 am on Feb 26, 2017 (gmt 0)

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Ok, I've eventually managed to get my Firefox back to where I want it to be, quite simply I do not want ads showing on my live sites whilst testing, simple. If anyone else wants to try these two sites to see if it happens to them as well, please sticky me. I'm not outing them unless Mozilla requests it.

Insofar as ad blocking is concerned I've just posted this in the AdSense forum, interesting reading:

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