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Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking (www.reuters.com)
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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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[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

The answer will always from now on be 'yes', for every annoying privacy invading toggle you have to change, it is in the best interest of the software creators to force you to do it in the way that benefits them most.

Our opinions are no longer as important as their ability to harvest our data.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 months ago

Our opinions are no longer as important as their ability to harvest our data.

Either you control your hardware and software OR some parasite does.

Your choice folks

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Ok I'll just go grab some sand and refine it into silicon then bake my own chips then code my own kernel and OS and applications because that's the only way to 'control' it.

Companies need to be held to regulatory standards about our private data, and the ONLY reason those regulations don't exist is because every FUCKDAMN politician in the world was born before TV had color

[-] Ferris@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago

This is how you get Temple OS

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

No, schizophrenia is how you get Temple OS

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 months ago

Mad dude made great OS due to paranoia...

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No it was a shitty OS with very VERY little hardware support,

and he built it because the voices in his head told him to build a temple and he was too lazy to be a carpenter.

Have you actually installed it? Because I have. It's BARELY an OS

The 'security' mumbo jumbo is mainly to cover his networking incompetence

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 months ago

God damn my man... Hot take after hot take today haha

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Everyone has the tracking turned off in Temple OS by default. That's why God doesn't find them. Just toggle on tracking

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 months ago

I don't disagree but bro... We both know dsddy Sam ain't saving Z slaves... This here country got elites with slaver mentality

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 3 months ago

It's mainly because of "perks."

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