It’s hard to tell, as there are so many things that influence it. A huge factor is selection bias, as only a small number of website embed StatCounter, and that’s very likely to not be a representative sample. I’d bet that the influence of that is magnitudes larger than of user agent spoofing.

I’m fairly sure it’s deficiencies in StatCounter’s measurement that’s accounting for it. Statistical noise, basically.

Yeah that’s what I mean - it’s not that the file size reduction is minimal, but that the benefits of that are fine, but not earth-shattering.

Oh! Note that in Settings under Network, there’s also a VPN setting that allows you to manually configure a VPN. It has an “Import from file…” option, so presumably, there’s a way to obtain a config file that should make it work. If not, knowing which options to set might work as well.

A VPN is definitely an example of software you should use rpm-ostree to install.

I think it’s fine if you use rpm-ostree for it, but it’s not necessarily required. I recently found out that the Mozilla VPN developers are experimenting (!) with building a Flatpak, and having tried it myself, it works very well.

What is it with this obsession with JPEG-XL? I keep seeing it mentioned on lots of threads, but as a user, the benefits seem marginal? Like: would be nice, but I’d expect more significant benefits from something that’s brought up this often - so which benefits am I missing?

It’s also clearly still in development and doesn’t really work well yet, so while fun, probably not something you’ll want to use yet. It’s not even at the point where reporting bugs makes sense.

Yes, every browser caches resources that multiple pages of the same site use, unless the site instructs them not too.

It is also the case that almost every modern browser does not share those caches between different websites, to avoid providing a mechanism for them to share data. This means that for websites, it is no longer beneficial to use CDNs, if it ever was - in practice, it was also the case that only very few CDN resources were actually shared between different websites (since they all depended on different versions or different CDNs).

The best thing you can do is not mess with the settings and leave them at the defaults, otherwise the mere fact of some data not being available already makes you stand out, in addition to breaking some websites.

And as for taking another crack at it, this time hopefully in a way that won’t confuse non-users, here’s some interesting followup looking for input: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-can-firefox-create-the-best-support-for-web-apps-on-the/m-p/60561

The AMA was June 13th, the acquisition news was posted June 16th.

Wat mij betreft wel ja. Dan gaat het mij overigens niet alleen over het specifieke voorbeeld van verzekeringspremies, maar het ondervangen van alle manieren waarop de data misbruikt kan worden door te verplichten dat ze voor geen enkel ander doel gebruikt mogen worden.

En extra leuk is dat je er zelf helemaal geen inspraak in hoeft te hebben. Als een direct familielid DNA instuurt en ze blijken bijvoorbeeld verhoogd risico op bepaalde ziektes te hebben, dan kun je zelf ook tegen hogere verzekeringspremies aanlopen, om maar iets te noemen.

It’s on the roadmap, though I imagine doing it properly is going to take a while - the test build was very rough, just to verify whether it was even realistic.

That is a classic. Personally, for the Netherlands, I was thinking some Doe Maar.

Or possibly Little Green Bag, but I’m guessing that doesn’t fit the “relatively unknown outside the Netherlands” criterion, nor is it in Dutch.

As @denschub@schub.social always emphasises: make sure to file a report at https://webcompat.com!

We ask everyone to file their reports, because all reports are really useful. Even if we don’t respond to every single thing you report, it’s a signal that we’re processing in many different ways. (…) please, keep reporting all issues you see, because every single blip counts!

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8ghtr2/

There’s definitely the bureau kredietregistratie in the Netherlands.

As far as I know you can’t “freeze” it like you describe, though you can request information on what is stored about you and who accessed it. It also costs money to run a check, and credit history doesn’t go back more than five years, doesn’t include your mortgage unless you missed paying that for longer than three months, and doesn’t include debts less than €250.

Edit: also just checked, but the information is only shared with parties that share credit history with the BKR. I think that means that it’s basically frozen by default, i.e. only parties that are actually about to do business with you can access it, but I’m not entirely sure. They’ll at least have to do some kind of business, i.e. not be a generic data broker.

Yeah, and the main difference to me is that that’s not going to sway elections or disclose a journalist’s sources or expose a human rights activist or something like that.

As I understand it, the way it works is that the aggregate categories are defined beforehand, e.g. "these sites are part of the “animals” category. So then if you visit any of those sites, your local install will match them against that list, and then share the aggregation outcome (i.e. “you visited an ‘animals’ site”), without having to share the specific site you viewed - which thus Mozilla can’t even know.

Was also asked about and answered in the recent AMA on reddit:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8gawuc/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8gq5hq/