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Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 month ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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STOCKHOLM, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing the Firefox browser maker of tracking user behaviour on websites without consent.

NOYB (None Of Your Business), the digital rights group founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, said Mozilla has enabled a so-called “privacy preserving attribution” feature that turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites without directly telling its users.

Mozilla had defended the feature, saying it wanted to help websites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about individual people. By offering what it called a non-invasive alternative to cross-site tracking, it hoped to significantly reduce collecting individual information.

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[–] myavatar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are forks, like libre wolf (desktop) and mull (Android) that don't ship with some of the bullshit, Firefox ships.

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, and using those is pretty good, but they don't really do anything you can't do just by changing settings in Firefox, and if Firefox doesn't have any users those die right along with it.