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Firefox to hide notification popups by default starting next year

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    rkcr
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    Pretty high and mighty for the article to declare those popups as annoying but then also do this.

    Pretty high and mighty for the article to declare those popups as annoying but then also do this.

    6 votes
    1. Diff
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      Eh. There's a separation between the author and the entities that caused that. The other day there was an article on the Washington Post that condemned browser fingerprinting, which it said a...

      Eh. There's a separation between the author and the entities that caused that. The other day there was an article on the Washington Post that condemned browser fingerprinting, which it said a third of the top 500 sites practiced including the WaPo itself. They had a quote from someone high up with the excuse that it's industry standard, and condemned that, too.

      9 votes
  2. ras
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    One of the first things I do when setting up a new machine with Firefox is to turn off notifications. I'm so glad they're doing this. At the very least I wish they'd have made that setting sync...

    One of the first things I do when setting up a new machine with Firefox is to turn off notifications. I'm so glad they're doing this. At the very least I wish they'd have made that setting sync between signed in instances of Firefox.

    1 vote