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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.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 month 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·
      1 month 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·
        1 month 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.

          • confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            1 month 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·
          1 month 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·
            1 month 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·
        1 month 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

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 month ago

      You’re talking about the wrong thing. The Mozilla Foundation is and has been acting a fool in recent years. Firefox, the open source program, is doing mostly OK. Obviously the two are closely connected, but they’re definitely not the same thing, and this matters when discussing policy.