<story><title>Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkk3</author><text>Surprised it&amp;#x27;s even that high, I tried to switch to Firefox the other month for privacy but gave up because it crashed on me it-least once a day.&lt;p&gt;Edit: thanks for the downvotes, I would have preferred if it worked but it didn&amp;#x27;t. I tried basic troubleshooting, disabling extensions etc. but didn&amp;#x27;t find it usable on macOs Monterey, think it doesn&amp;#x27;t play well with youtube.</text></item><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>Firefox  has a sub 8% market share, so I doubt this will make a drastic change to how they operate.</text></item><item><author>madmax108</author><text>I wonder if there&amp;#x27;s anyone from any advertising&amp;#x2F;ad-targeting companies on HN who can shed some light on if&amp;#x2F;how much this change may affect their &amp;quot;product&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Asking this since I know friends working at companies that were DRASTICALLY affected by the Apple advertising changes in terms of user targetability (and hence revenue) and I&amp;#x27;m wondering if this change will be similar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Probably you were downvoted because your comment took the thread on a generic tangent - indeed into one of the most-trodden areas on HN. Generic tangents are easy to fall into (of course) but make threads less interesting, which is why the site guidelines ask people to avoid them. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unpredictable&amp;#x2F;whimsical&amp;#x2F;curious tangents are still ok. Just not the predictable ones.&lt;p&gt;More explanations here if anyone wants them:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;amp;page=0&amp;amp;prefix=true&amp;amp;query=by%3Adang%20black%20hole%20-pigment&amp;amp;sort=byDate&amp;amp;type=story&amp;amp;type=comment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;amp;page=0&amp;amp;prefix=true&amp;amp;que...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;amp;page=0&amp;amp;prefix=true&amp;amp;query=generic%20discussion%20by%3Adang%20-flamewars%20-flamewar&amp;amp;sort=byDate&amp;amp;type=comment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;amp;page=0&amp;amp;prefix=true&amp;amp;que...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkk3</author><text>Surprised it&amp;#x27;s even that high, I tried to switch to Firefox the other month for privacy but gave up because it crashed on me it-least once a day.&lt;p&gt;Edit: thanks for the downvotes, I would have preferred if it worked but it didn&amp;#x27;t. I tried basic troubleshooting, disabling extensions etc. but didn&amp;#x27;t find it usable on macOs Monterey, think it doesn&amp;#x27;t play well with youtube.</text></item><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>Firefox  has a sub 8% market share, so I doubt this will make a drastic change to how they operate.</text></item><item><author>madmax108</author><text>I wonder if there&amp;#x27;s anyone from any advertising&amp;#x2F;ad-targeting companies on HN who can shed some light on if&amp;#x2F;how much this change may affect their &amp;quot;product&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Asking this since I know friends working at companies that were DRASTICALLY affected by the Apple advertising changes in terms of user targetability (and hence revenue) and I&amp;#x27;m wondering if this change will be similar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tristan957</author><text>I have used Firefox for 7 years and never had it crash once.</text></comment>