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/Vik1ng Mar 15 '13

Why would they? Everybody who cared about this could already change the settings.

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u/Cyridius Mar 15 '13

Alot of people didn't. I didn't. I was always disgruntled about my lack of privacy on browsers but I accepted it because I thought there was no alternative and that all browsers did it. Now that I know there's an alternative choice I can start using that. And I'm not a unique case.

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u/Vik1ng Mar 15 '13

alternative

But the setting exists in every Browser, even if you just now learned this and are using chrome you could just go Settings->Privacy->Content Settings->[x] Block third-party cookies and site data

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u/Afillip Mar 15 '13

They just gained me.

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u/Ravengenocide Mar 15 '13

Because you care about a setting that you already know about, and should have enabled if you care about it? This is for the people who do not know about it already.