Thats sounds traumatic, holy shit.

Does this happen on a freshly created user? Or does it happen just for your user account?

This is one of those features that should be ON by default. If its OFF by default, then this wont be adopted by advertisers, thus letting the internet continue down its dark, invasive, malicious path. Firefox is taking a chance here at making the entire internet better than it was before.

Those that are upset by this feature being enabled by default have the right to be upset about it. Totally fine with that, and I get it. I just think its also fine that Mozilla inconvenienced those people in order to push this. They could have communicated it more clearly than they did, but overall, this seems like a tool that I hope advertisers can get behind rather than the aggressive tracking methods they currently deploy.

I know its tough to source something that says that this new Firefox anonymization tool for advertisers will individually fingerprint someone, but if you find it, please share it and I will gladly read through it.

Have a good day.

Im talking about this new feature specifically, not in general. Thanks for the overview though.

This wont make your browsing anymore private than it already is or not. This is just telling advertisers to back off and accept that this is the only data you’re going to get willingly, and its nothing that can fingerprint you individually.

Source for how this anonymization is a myth?

They can believe what they wish. This doesn’t add or reduce any advertisements that show up. This only gives advertisers anonymized data instead of advertisers using very invasive and possibly malicious methods of tracking. If they read any of the documentation for this, they could help themselves understand what its for.

You’re going to be tracked regardless if this enabled or disabled. It doesn’t matter what web browser you use.