romkin's comments

On: Wikipedia is getting a new look

[romkin]

Same here, I hate it. Here's a userscript that expands the language sidebar: https://github.com/ayyrx/userscripts/raw/master/wpfix/wpfix....

Edit `const enableLanguageSidebarAltView = true` to `const enableLanguageSidebarAltView = false` to make it look exactly like it used to do before that dumb button was implemented

On: Firefox Privacy How-To Guide

[romkin]

this article doesn't address the main issue with firefox and privacy: it sends your very complete fingerprint to google on its very first launch, before you get the chance to change any privacy settings. from that moment on, unless you have JS disabled, google will know your every move one way or another.

all their talk about privacy is hot air as long as that is true.

[kbrosnan → romkin]

GA was removed from the first run page https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/7621

[romkin → kbrosnan]

oh. didn't know that, and yeah, can confirm - all requests on that page are made to mozilla.org. good! might have been an oversight then.

so this pretty much invalidates my other two comments here.

[auslander → kbrosnan]

Only 2 months ago. Why it took so long?

[Uhuhreally → romkin]

"it sends your very complete fingerprint to google on its very first launch"

sorry could you explain in more detail please ?

[romkin → Uhuhreally]

you install firefox and launch it for the first time. immediately, a page with google analytics opens up and google gets to fingerprint your browser and hardware before you've had a chance to implement any privacy measures.

I find it rather unlikely that mozilla needs GA on that page, considering that firefox is sending tons of telemetry to their own servers.