odd blocking message from firefox

DataDrake

brent You have to understand that we need to treat these kinds of claims with extreme responses. It's not personal. We are humans to and make mistakes (I'll leave that unintentional typo in). What we can't have, though, is people thinking that we are doing things we aren't. Especially bad things. Fake News is a tag that specifically exists to quickly and concisely make it clear, before even opening the post, that what is being represented by the author is not true. We almost exclusively use it for security and privacy claims about Solus and its services that are false.

brent

DataDrake I saw a browser warning, you see a privacy claim. It can absolutely be seen both ways, I understand. Thanks for the clarity.

ryzee

brent Just letting you know that I saw this exact same message from Firefox about Twitter and I,
like you, don't have a Twitter account. I figured that since Firefox had been updated recently that it was just
a cute and annoying little stunt to let me know how improved and safe the browser is now so I just ignored
it (lucky me!) and moved on. I'm mentioning this to you because I have my tracking settings on standard
instead of strict and it still happened. I've just written it off as a one time nuisance from Firefox as I haven't
seen anything like it since.

brent

ryzee I've just written it off as a one time nuisance from Firefox as I haven't
seen anything like it since.

I wrote it off as the same.
Appreciate that you've seen it and appreciate the response. I, too, believe this is was a FF one-time nuisance.

kyrios

@ryzee @brent so you guys consider privacy as a nuisance ?
Because what you're complaining about the new enhanced tracking protection tool from mozilla and it's automatically open the first time you run firefox 70.0 show the new functionality, configure your privacy settings... it looks like they failed to create awareness.

ryzee

If I really want privacy I use anon surf (or other tools). Firefox by itself isn't going to give you privacy.

Nobody said privacy is a nuisance. Pop ups from Mozilla are a nuisance. Yes.

brent

Having the FF protection is a blessing not a nuisance.Inquiring about what that specific protection warning was about? Wish I could've avoided it.
edit: clarity

JoshStrobl

I think we can all agree that this discussion thread has gone down the rabbit hole a bit too far. It seems quite clear to me that users in this thread are (now) educated on this functionality in Firefox that is now more front and center than in previous Firefox releases, as well as hopefully reaching the conclusion that:

Solus does not track its users or run any form of analytics on our web properties (we obviously do not control Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, etc.).
Any cookies not related to the authentication against our discussion forums, or other information on any discussion threads on our Flarum, are solely the result of media or other forms of content embedding from platforms which do not share our views on analytics or privacy.
Firefox may surface new functionality to the user that has been added to the browser in a new release in an attempt to educate the user on said new functionality, and the surfacing of that functionality is not necessarily indicative that it was surfaced because of a specific website.

Now here is a gif of a cute kitty booping a doggo's nose to balance things out.

brent

JoshStrobl I actually thought that was sweet.

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