Privacy

31968 readers

435 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

124

Firefox allows Google to use cross-site cookies by default despite claiming to block all of them OOTB (wetdry.world)

submitted 3 months ago by sunglocto@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

37 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Did you know? Despite claiming to block all cross-site cookies out of the box, Firefox automatically allows Google to use them in your browser should you log in to one of their services.

The browser only lets you know about this once it happens, and it's on you to notice the permissions icon appearing in the URL bar. There is a link to a paragraph on a help page explaining this behaviour, but it seemingly goes unmentioned pretty much everywhere else on the internet.

This surprised me, especially considering Firefox's stance on privacy. I was even more surprised that this is done without consent. If this is for usability, Firefox should at least warn the user before this happens.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Don't log into their services.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't visit the websites.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't even use HTTP, only Gopher and BBS.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't even use UDP or TCP, only FCP.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't even use a computer, talk to your friends in person.

[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't even have friends, talk to the voices in your head.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dont even talk with the voices in your head, destroy the illusory separation between self and other

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey, weren't you on sabbatical?

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

I dont get it

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Don't even talk to the voices in your head, your wife will think you're cheating on her.

The voices in your head are selling your data too.

[–] GustavoFring@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Don't even your wife will think you're cheating on her, talk to your wife's boyfriend.

[–] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bingo! This is the way. I only open chrome when I need to log into a google/ alphabet site on the unlikely occasion. And close it immediately after.

[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Exactly if it can be used without logging in you don't have to log into everything.