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

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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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[+] hoshikarakitaridia -24 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Hopefully this makes some of the Firefox shills finally realize it's time to change our recommendations.

I've heard so much shit lately about Firefox, it has become a sinking ship and I'm eager to see who picks up the shards and runs with it.

[–] zecg 16 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Hopefully this makes some of the Firefox shills finally realize it’s time to change our recommendations.

There's still nothing better, you just have to be careful to block all their moneymaking bullshit attempts like save-your-shit-into-our-pocket and virginity-preserving assfucking. I use Fennec on android, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

LibreWolf is better, includes ublock and no tracking by default.

There are good chromium based browsers too, I'm not aware of Vivaldi having any major controversies or shady business decisions in recent years, it has a built in adblock thats independent of chromium's upstream.

If you disqualify every browser due to its upstream having issues then you should probably revert to using CURL or something convoluted like what richard stallman does. Every browser that exists today is a fork of some browser that previously was good but started to suck.

[–] TrickDacy 4 points 1 month ago

I don't think chromium should ever be encouraged. That is the one browser family trying and mostly succeeding at swallowing up the Internet. Google already has way too much power over the Internet, and it will only get worse if people don't start leaving their ecosystem

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