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in Germany there’s a (somewhat) new law that makes it mandatory for all websites to ask you if it can store cookies on your harddrive. since then every time you visit a new page or on a new installation you have to click through three pop-ups, it’s sooooo annoying to navigate the internet since then. so yeah this feature is more then welcome here ^^
I think it’s the same for whole EU. I’m forced to click even though I’m not from Germany.
I’m not in the EU and those banners are still everywhere.
And the thing is afaik in the EU websites cant save anything nonessential unless you actively opt-in. In other countries its opt-out. So blocking cookie banners while not strictly cleaning or blocking may be harmful for privacy
okay. my bad it’s apparently EU wide. so then it doesn’t make sense for Firefox to only do that in Germany.
Gdpr thing
Nope it’s the e privacy directive, a common mistake is to blame the GDPR for that though.
I think this is because of a recent German court ruling making DNT legally binding in Germany.
good call
I read in another article that it is just supposed to be a first test of the feature before the global rollout.
As I understand it, the blocker has website-specific rules to automatically click the right buttons. For the first release, they’ve probably primarily tested those with German websites. I assume that if it works well there and they’ve ironed out most bugs, we can see it roll out more widely.
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I think (and hope) tha the logical conclusion of the DNT lawsuit v LinkedIn will be that DNT will be deemed necessary and sufficient, and that this setting will replace all the cookie banners. But even if that comes to pass it will be years before all the banners will be gone.
okay that makes sense.
What is that all about? Geo fencing privacy enhancements?
Are they trying to keep Google happy or something.
Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.
I thought that “Wayland by default” being merged meant it will be a part of the next release but there wasn’t even a mention of it. Will it be a part of the next release maybe?
it will ship with 121
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Change-Wayland-Release
I could be wrong, but i think that was probably on the alpha release, which is now the beta release, so maybe the next stable release will have wayland by default.
At least according to this article, it seems like Wayland enabled by default will be for the next release!
If it is a feature you have been waiting for you can just switch to it already even if it’s not the defaulth
Just restarted FF lol
Please dont post screenshots of content. Post a link to it
They might have changed the OP to fix it in the past hour, but for me the “screenshot” is coming from the social image for the link on the post itself. Clicking through the link gets to the actual article.
