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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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[-] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Hopefully this makes some of the Firefox shills finally realize it's time to change our recommendations.

I've heard so much shit lately about Firefox, it has become a sinking ship and I'm eager to see who picks up the shards and runs with it.

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 43 points 10 months ago

And what else should be recommended?

The choice is basically between Firefox or skinned Chromium.

Do you really want to experience first-hand just why Internet Explorer was this hated?
Here's a hint: de facto monopoly on browser market that allowed them to control the web standards back then and their ideas were not good.

it has become a sinking ship and I’m eager to see who picks up the shards and runs with it.

I don't think you have any idea how much work it takes to create a new browser.

[-] confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

I think there’s kind of a 3rd choice, WebKit.

Chrome was great, till it wasn’t. IE always was bad. Edge is chromium.

Firefox has stayed closer to “don’t be evil” than many companies. Is say far more than the other options.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

WebKit is really only available on Apple devices in any meaningful way.

[-] confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Completely agree. I understood WebKit to be a different browse engine than chromium or Firefox.

While chromium and Firefox have wider platform options, there’s “kind of” a 3rd runner even though locked to apple.

I agree Linux and open source is king.

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

I think there’s kind of a 3rd choice, WebKit.

That's where Chromium came from originally, so not really 3rd.

[-] confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was thinking WebKit was closer to Netscape in origin.

You made me go look it up. 😉 and I think we’re both wrong…. (Here’s my edit…. Poster above is right. I read it wrong, so only I am wrong on the origin of WebKit)

Below from Wikipedia:

WebKit started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS software libraries from KDE.

On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it had forked WebCore, a component of WebKit, to be used in future versions of Google Chrome

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Labybird is a completely new upcoming open source browser, complete with its own from scratch engine

Theres also Servo an open source engine led by the Linux Foundation

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