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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.

  • Icalasari@fedia.io
    581·
    2 months ago

    Hope this results in Firefox changing it to be opt in and not result in Firefox going the way of the dodo - We can’t have Chromium be the only option, and without somebody developing base Firefox, the forks are going to die off

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 months ago

      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
        23·
        2 months ago

        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·
          2 months ago

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

          • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            2 months ago

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

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      52·
      2 months ago

      I could see tor browser continuing to be developed. There are enough users who are technical enough to take on a browser project.