With the release of Firefox 128, a new setting for “privacy-preserving ad measurement” has been added and enabled by default. Since PG already recommends disabling this for Safari, it should probably do the same for Firefox. [Screenshot 2024-07-09 at 9.45.54 AM]

update: Add information about Firefox's "privacy-preserving" ad measurement main ← rollsicecream:firefox-ad-measurement opened 10:01AM - 10 Jul 24 UTC (UTC) …

How is this setting configured in LibreWolf? I can’t find this setting in my instance

Have they released Librewolf 128 yet?

LIbrewolf is unlikely to be on version 128 yet, and will almost certainly disable it by default. But also, I think the OP is wrong, I don’t think this is a feature that is currently enabled by default: [I Misunderstood, OP is right] Firefox now supports the experimental Privacy Preserving Attribu…

Right, I did see that. The box is checked by default, however (at least on my two instances), so it should probably be un-checked to prevent any future enablement of the feature.

I found it enabled by default as soon as I upgraded to Firefox 128. It is also implied here that it will be enabled by default but you can disable it from the settings: Privacy-Preserving Attribution | Firefox Help PPA is enabled in Firefox starting in version 128. A small number of sites are goi…

[image] BionicBison: Right, I did see that. The box is checked by default, however (at least on my two instances), so it should probably be un-checked to prevent any future enablement of the feature. You are right, I was mistaken, it looks to be enabled by default. It seems I misunderstood wh…

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