Scott Williams 🐧 on Nostr: Unpopular opinion: The alarm over #PPA in #Firefox is overblown and if they had added ...
Unpopular opinion: The alarm over #PPA in #Firefox is overblown and if they had added it without putting the setting prominently in the Settings view but tucked it away in the about:config, I doubt anyone would be talking about it. The concerns about opt-in vs opt-out and communication are legitimate, IMO. PPA is arguably a potential privacy improvement for the industry. After reading more about how it works, I'm not mad about it. I just wish it had been communicated better.
#privacy
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