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What’s the behavior before this option was added? Would websites track you or not?

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They definitely didn’t just stop tracking you because this option exists.

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And they wonder why their market share is decreasing.

The only major browser that actually seems to care about their users is Vivaldi, sadly.

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Vivaldi is not private, or open source. It is also a fork of Chromium. If we are going to name forks, then Librewolf or GNU Icecat are better browsers by a mile.

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Name anything Vivaldi specifically (not Chromium-wide) has done to screw over their users. I can’t name a single thing, while I can name many Anti-User things Firefox has done.

Unfortunately, open-source becomes nearly meaningless when the cost to produce a fork becomes so prohibitive and the open-source project starts acting like a for-profit company.

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I can say the same thing about Librewolf, as they haven’t done anything to screw over their users either.

Vivaldi just does not have strong ad-blocking, fingerprinting protections, or privacy a preserving measures in general. Here is a comparison between some browsers: https://privacytests.org/

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Oh shit. Now that I have checked, it was turned on by default on mine too.

What’s wrong with you mozilla ?? Firefox was supposed to be the alternative

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They have gone corrupt, they’re full-on techbros now

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It has not been the alternative for a while now IMO. I have been using LibreWolf.

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