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This is what Mozilla has been doing for a while. They enable advertisers and bad actors to profile you without any sane safeguards to prevent websites from running JavaScript code that is used in a nefarious way. If they were actually focused on protecting users, they would be working with IPFS and building other tools to help hide user identities through a permission-based system. Chrome is just as guilty, but it's not like Mozilla is trying to define new web standards to prevent this type of activity. They may as well be working together.


Don't know why you are getting downvoted when you are completely correct.

There's so much that Mozilla could do structurally, but they are terrified of rocking the boat or disrupting their corporate underwriters.

Just like earlier today, with their anti malicious javascript features[1]; they could look into empowering the users and changing the structure of how js is run in the browser. But that might threaten advertisers, so instead they opted for a clumsly blacklisting solution instead.

If you want an accurate heuristic for predicting Mozilla's behavior, just ask "What would Google want?". It may not be Google in particular that these decisions benefit, but they absolutely benefit those entities that are locking down and siloing the internet.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19614808




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