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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-11T16:11:32.000Z",
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  "textContent": "> Concerning \"privacy\", you have one way to look at it, but I have a different way of looking at it. I'll explain by using an example.\n>\n> Many people, including me, do not like having tracking cookies put on their computers by websites which are affiliated with other websites in the form of \"buttons\" when one does not have an account with said company. One example is Facebook (Meta).\n>\n> Facebook (Meta) places tracking cookies on the computers and devices of people who do not have a Facebook account. This tracking occurs through the extensive network of \"Like\" buttons, \"Share\" buttons, embedded content, and the Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) present on millions of non-Facebook websites.\n>\n> [...]\n\nI think what I'm trying to say here is, Mozilla's VPN won't help you stay private online, and neither will blocking cookies with an ad-blocker. If you really want to do that, you're at the point where you probably can't use a mainstream browser with DoH, and may also want to use a custom DNS resolver that is setup to block all IPs associated with a particular domain. A good firewall designed for privacy can also help. What VPNs are good for, though... is getting around geoblocking restrictions, torrenting, and generally making it harder for average people with legitimate complaints about your online behavior to figure out who your ISP is and get something done about it. They generally won't do much to stop a Google or a Meta, though.\n\nI’m not saying these tracking methods are unstoppable. But they don't live in the browser, so simple tools like cookie blocking or hosts files don’t address them. If you want to mitigate them, you have to move up to network‑level defenses. My point, is that Mozilla's marketing doesn't help here. They're still presenting cookie controls and VPN subscriptions as if cookies were the primary tracking vector. Meanwhile, Firefox itself quietly enabled a new tracking mechanism (\"Privacy Preserving Attribution\") by default. There are so, so many ways of tracking people now that do not involve cookies, that worrying about cookies is basically fighting yesterday's war at this point.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Firefox 150 comes with a Free VPN",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-11T16:11:32.000Z"
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