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    Porting iCloud Passwords Extension to Firefox

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  • ipa

    Interoperable Private Attribution (IPA) - A Private Measurement Proposal

    > you don't need to worry that toggle will get mysteriously turn back on.

    I will be caustious with such statement.

    https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/ipa/

    IPA now allows these companies to track users across multiple IP addresses, and regardless of the user's cookie settings, via a unique tracking identifier. It is also proposed that the operating system provides the unique tracking identifier which can then be used by all applications or browsers on a device, allowing different devices behind a single IP address to be distinguished.

    Mozilla is one of the authors.

  • ungoogled-chromium

    Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

    Using these sort of downstream patch set browsers is rarely a good idea. If it has multiple full-time developers from a respected org dedicated to it, then it can be justifiable (Tor Browser, Brave), but take a look at the gaps in time for these two pages:

    https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/rel...

    https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/ch...

    There's often days you're going without security patches. If you want a browser without Google tracking, Firefox is a much better choice.

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