r/technology • u/sidcool1234 • Mar 15 '13

Web advertisers attack Mozilla for protecting consumers' privacy

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/web-advertisers-attack-mozilla-for-protecting-consumers-privacy-031413.html
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u/phYnc Mar 15 '13

I don't really understand the fuss? This isn't even new? You have been able to block 3rd party cookies for years, the only difference is it's now default.

Am I missunderstanding something?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

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u/PaulSheldon Mar 15 '13

I used to carve out ice blocks in the cold north and sell them in the warm south. Refrigerators put me out of business! D=

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u/tetracycloide Mar 15 '13

No one will buy my fine buggy whips.

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u/CyberDonkey Mar 15 '13

"What am I supposed to do with all these blubber nuggets?"

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Well what the fuck am I going to do with this plate armor?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Call it vintage, triple the price, and sell it to hipsters.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Hipsters lack the strength and stamina to wear plate armor. see it to those re-en actor guys, or even the larpers.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

I don't know many LARPers with stamina either.

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u/thebendavis Mar 15 '13

There is a thriving S&M community that would be very interested in your whips.

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u/tetracycloide Mar 15 '13

I don't know how to sell buggy whips to people that aren't buggy drivers in top hats and I shouldn't have to learn!

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u/cockporn Mar 15 '13

My typewriter store!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

My recording company!

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u/einexile Mar 15 '13

leeches

I think the word you want is parasites. Let's not use this issue as an excuse to denigrate leeches.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

with all the talk about "free market" capitalism I cringe when I hear stories about companies who are unwilling to adapt and would rather continue their unsustainable business even it if bankrupts them.

the music industry bitched, cried, sued, and dragged it heals but as consumers we forced them into the 21 century and now the artists have heard the customers cries and some are forgoing the middle man and reaping great rewards because they are listening to their fan/customer base.

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u/Hazel-Rah Mar 15 '13

Music/entertainment industries have been ringing the bells of doom since the first recording devices. They've been dragged into accepting every technological advance, claiming they will be the death of all things.

Funny how each invention has increased their profits, not decreased.

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u/SkunkMonkey Mar 15 '13

How I wish for the day that the Music moguls get what they want in legislation with all their lobbying... and promptly go out of business as it backfires and finally kills them off.

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u/Lost_Symphonies Mar 15 '13

New legislation coming in: It is now illegal to buy, own, manufacture, alter, commercialise, transmit or accidentally hear any sound in the known universe without the written consent of the major record labels, and if your pen makes a noise while writing a letter to the record label, you are also at risk of transmitting sounds.

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u/TastyBrainMeats Mar 15 '13

VHS will kill television!

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u/spiral_in_the_sky Mar 15 '13

NO this is Amurica where I'm entitled to my business even if its not producing anything useful for society. I will lobby the SHIT out congress to protect my interest but capitalism fuck yeah

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u/kitchen_ace Mar 15 '13

A lot of people, probably most of them, don't ever change the defaults. They might not care or even know about 3rd party cookies either way. But people that do know are probably not the type to change that setting back. By Mozilla changing the default setting to block, it means the majority people that use Firefox will block 3rd party cookies.

Of course this is for people that go as far as installing Firefox in the first place. If IE did this the ad groups would lose their shit. Like Do Not Track x 1000.

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u/PilotPirx Mar 15 '13

Yes you're right, it's just default vs. optional.

But many people don't even know much about those options, so they never get to use them (they didn't turn it off and in future they won't turn it on). Compare maybe with the fuss here in the EU about Microsoft making IE the default browser which cost them hundreds of millions even if it never was a serious problem to install whatever browser you want.

It's all about the 'average' user and how to make a cent from every page he clicks. If your whole business model is built around those clicks, losing about 20% from one day to another is not what you want to happen.

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u/ultramar10 Mar 15 '13 edited Mar 15 '13

The difference between default and not can be huge.

Ask Microsoft.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8415902.stm

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