Yup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there.

Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.

Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.

But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.

Doesn't that sound great?

Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.

But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice?

Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.

UPDATE: The about:config setting for this is `dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled`. It's a bool. Set it to false to turn it off.

#Nonbinary folks don't owe you a particular presentation of self.

1. Androgyny is cool but not for everyone.
2. Nonbinary is not code for "weak, like woman".
3. It's okay--perhaps even good!--if you can't divine someone's gender presentation from their appearance. We have language for that.

Happy nonbinary day!

Ads on the web don't actually *need* user tracking. Browsers don't *have to* cooperate with those who want to surveil us.

*boots computer after a bios update*

computer: well let me take an painfully long moment to post without showing any information to the user, making them wonder if the bios flash was corrupted

If you can't find a fursuiter to hug, a big plushy is the next best thing!

#FursuitFriday #Furry #Plush #Fursuit #Photography

An enby chee for Nonbinary Awareness Week! 💛🤍💜🖤 #FursuitFriday

Sockies and arm warmers from @AngyPaws

you gained +5 windows xp

Good news everyone! Windows Update is reducing carbon emissions so Copilot can emit them instead.

There are over 9000 nerve endings in the Thinkpad nipple mouse.

Falling and flowing water

#TravelTuesday #TravelCat #Fall #Autumn
#Argentina #Patagonia #SouthAmerica
#ChorilloDelSalto #ElChalten #LosGlaciares
#Waterfall #River #Creek #LongExposure

modern x86_64 processor trying to pass as a processor from 1978. its realmoding

The gray fox is actually not a true fox. The genus Urocyon comes from the Latin and/or Greek 'uro' meaning tail, and 'cyon', meaning dog. It includes the gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) and the island fox (Urocyon littoralis). - Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/111ArrxgL (California Department of Fish and Wildlife)
#Fox #Bot

yet again, ed zitron is back at it with another banger of an article railing against the AI bubble. truly cathartic to read such a well-articulated and thorough takedown that confirms that this wave of “AI” (LLMs) is more tech hype bubble bullshit https://www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

"What did you call me???"

Character: Reyna ( @reyna )
Suit: Clockwork Creatures

#Fursuit #Portrait #FursuitFriday
#Fox #Vixen #Blue #Sitting
#Photography #StudioPortrait #Studio

EN: oven 😐

NL: oven 😐

DE: Ofen 😐

NO: ovn/omn 😐

DK: ovn 😐

SV: ugn 🤢

The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, let us die in Maui fires, crushed our universal healthcare & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is no beacon, it's a destroyer of independence #july4

No, I will not disable my ad blocker for your website.

A lot of people are talking about alternatives to the Ladybird browser/browser-engine. I have a list in my site’s compatibility statement.

• Servo (Rust, some C++) and WeasyPrint (Python, some deps with other bindings) are probably the most capable alternative actively-developed engines.
• Dillo (C++) and Hastur (C++, requires Bazel) seem promising.
• If you have a VR headset, be sure to try Igalia’s Wolvic (Java).
• While NetSurf (C) works very well, development on its web engine seems to have slowed down a lot.