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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Turning the feature on by default is bad, but I don't think that legal complaints are the way to go as well as the aggressive tone of NOYB. Firefox is the only browser developed and maintained professionally which has the potential of offering some privacy on the web. Given the importance of web browsers volunteer work just won't cut it with the amount of features and security concerns that a browser needs.

NOYB would've done much better by talking to Mozilla directly and advocating for them to do the right thing going for a legal complaint as the final nuclear option. If the was the case, then good that there's a complaint, but the article does not indicate the any of this happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Now now. If Mozilla is breaking the law here, of course someone would report them for it. There's no need to shoot the messenger when everything was predictable.

[–] Angry_Autist -1 points 1 month ago

Turning the feature on by default is bad, but

Nope, no further. Downvoted and blocked.

Don't you fucking try and justify this.

[–] zecg -3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

talking to Mozilla directly and advocating for them to do the right thing going for a legal complaint as the final nuclear option

Fuck that, they know what they're doing and they know what the right thing is. Mozilla is the enemy for some time now, Firefox's development is basically held hostage by a shitty corporation and a toothless foundation.

[–] TrickDacy 2 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

people refuse to boycott anything, for any amount of time. thats what leads to getting to be so expensive.
in reality, it would be ideal if everyone was willling to boycott anything (maybe everything ) for any amount of time ( possibly up to a max of infinity )

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

so, beyond cookies is it?

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