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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sunzu@kbin.run 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is google corrupting Mozilla?

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozilla-is-an-advertising-company-now/

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 5 points 4 months ago

why are you doing this to me?!

well at least there are good forks for the browser out there. how long until they start going chrome route?

Feels like google realized that once normies realize how shiti they are, they will run for firefox which by then hopefully will be a properly gutted front end for an ad company.

[–] InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

now

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No. This is a privacy-protecting option that gathers no additional information about you or your hardware.

The other link posted in reply is overblown fear-mongering from Mozilla's single biggest hater because they bought an ad company.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

a privacy-protecting option that gathers no additional information about you or your hardware.

What information are they gathering then?

[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

A single number per ad campaign of how many times an ad view resulted in a visit or purchase.

Mozilla's announcement about it explains it pretty well: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Then why aren't they putting it up front and shouting from the rooftops about the new "privacy protecting feature"?