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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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

submitted 3 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's tracking how well ads perform without tracking individual users. Tracking ads isn't the problem. Tracking users is the problem. Before this the only way to track ad performance was by tracking users. This is a way to track ad performance without tracking users.

[–] hcbxzz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tracking ads is also a problem, just a different one. The whole point of ads is to manipulate your behavior. There's plenty of reason to not want to make that more effective

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I still don't want advertisers to know if their ads were effective on me