• LWD@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    The argument that “It is just a new, additional means of tracking users” also doesn’t really make sense - even if we assume that this is new means of tracking.

    It is a new means of tracking. It is extra telemetry provided by Mozilla to advertisement partners.

    it doesn’t make a difference.

    It makes a difference because Mozilla went out of its way to inject this tracking into a browser that is supposedly made for users.

    It does not escape me, by the way, that Mozilla is now a de jure advertising corporation: since FakeSpot they’ve sold private data to third party advertisers, and since Anonym they’ve operated an advertising-specific wing.

    Because of this this, Mozilla can no longer make any statements about online advertising without a huge conflict of interest, which they should disclose.