I’ve been getting this banner on some of my Firefox profiles. I have not looked into it. But, it seems to suggest turning off Strict Tracking.
It is hard to believe that Mozilla would roll this “feature” out.
Has anyone seen this, or know more about it? I have not clicked ‘Learn more’ yet.
I have not seen this on my Linux systems, and I always run Strict Tracking Protection.
It’s interesting that Mozilla would roll out pop-ups for this as this is a feature you need to explicitly opt into. By default, it’s set to Standard Tracking Protection.
I suppose the reasoning is that people will assume Firefox is broken on certain sites when in actuality the sites are broken because of the user’s configuration.
I’ve seen mentions online that Firefox breaks on certain websites, but I haven’t encountered many of these websites myself. Nothing immediately comes to mind.
I’d had issues with it a couple of years back when embedded tweets were not showing up in news articles and were an important part of the article. The less technically minded may just decide that Firefox is inferior because things appear broken.
Not sure what the best way to communicate the setting is though.
To me it seems to be referring to the two check box settings, sitting between the strict and custom settings
This might help my poor descrription
Fix major site issues (recommended)
Helps load sites and features by unblocking only essential elements that may contain trackers. Covers most common problems.Learn more
Fix minor site issues
Restores things like videos in an article or comment sections by unblocking elements that may contain trackers. This can reduce site issues but offers less protection. Must be used with fixes for major issues.