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Mozilla Faces GDPR Complaint Over Firefox Tracking Users Without Consent (restoreprivacy.com)

submitted 1 month ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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The European privacy rights organization noyb has filed a formal complaint against Mozilla for enabling a new feature in its Firefox browser that allegedly tracks users without their consent. The feature in question, called Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA), is designed to measure the effectiveness of online advertisements while minimizing data collection, but noyb claims it violates … The post Mozilla Faces GDPR Complaint Over Firefox Tracking Users Without Consent appeared first on RestorePrivacy.

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[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I went to check this setting and it seems to rely on "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla". Which I, and imagine many of my fellow lemmings already have disabled.

Check and confirm though, of course.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The real MVP boiling this down to what we need to check - thanks!

[–] OppositeOfOxymoron@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

I despise the fact that we keep having to review the settings for new shit that needs to be turned off.