Completely agreed. Standing next to a bunch of cars and breathing their exhaust is an awful, visceral experience everyone can relate to.

Web browsers are basically the new higher-level operating system. They likely should be using more energy than anything else considering how much we run in them.

An IP address is not always as telling as the DNS name of what you're connecting to. E.g. I may be connecting to a CDN like CloudFlare for content over HTTPS and my ISP will have no idea what I'm doing. But if I used the DNS name that refers to that content it would likely be more obvious in many cases.

ISPs can sniff the hostname from the HTTPS Server Name Indicator (SNI) headers because they are transmitted in clear.

The next step will be to deploy the TLS 1.3 Encrypted Server Name Indicator (ESNI)[1].

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni-03

AMP, Facebook groups, WordPress.com sites, shared hosting, download sites etc.

Thinking this is a step backwards is pretty naive.

I only use Facebook via Firefox on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...) and it works great. Not wanting to grant intrusive permissions to the Facebook app is my number one reason.

It won't let me use Firefox 8. It says I need a more modern Firefox. Hmm...

Firefox 8 isn't official so it probably sends a funky header back that identifies it as something else. Or their detection code is wrong.

According to WhatsMyUserAgent.com, Firefox 9.0a2 (alpha channel) looks like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a2) Gecko/20110930 Firefox/9.0a2

Doesn't look very weird.

I will check this, this is just for testing anyways.

Where is this school? I want in (for my kids)!