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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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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's always the Ladybird browser and an independent open source browser engine called Servo that's under The Linux Foundation

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the Servo engine + accompanying browser will look like a Terminal pulled out of darkness into a desktop environment or an app developed in 1998 by Microsoft/any other UI designer at the time this is nothing I'd would want to use at work nor at home even if I am paid to use it...

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I appreciate your apprehension. Fortunately, you don't need to speculate. Go try it and find out.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Currently: If it's on Windows, sure. If it's Linux only, no because I have no desktop environment on my server.