@privacyguides collaborators, it’s time to review the recommendation of Firefox as a good browser option…
From: @sarahjamielewis
https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/113245689258934184
@privacyguides collaborators, it’s time to review the recommendation of Firefox as a good browser option…
From: @sarahjamielewis
https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/113245689258934184
What?
@helenslunch that’s what Mozilla is doing with their “less intrusive advertising” they’re tracking their users at the same time.
“Mozilla has enabled a so-called privacy preserving attribution (PPA) feature that turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites without directly telling its users.”
Not really. The browser is tracking the user. All user activity remains local in the browser.
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/
Ah, it’s just google’s privacy sandbox. Which imo is worse than straight up tracking everything on their end. It puts people at serious risk
Basically. Insultingly, it was built alongside, and in some collaborative measure with, Google. (A bunch of companies bigger than Mozilla, and a bunch of ad networks, are all teaming up for the PATCG).
Oh, that’s disappointing. I will be looking further into that. Thank you!
You just intentionally omitted a bunch of pertinent information…
You said
The pertinent information is that you were incorrect. That should be a big enough red flag for you to reevaluate how safe and secure you think PPA is.
I was not. What is transmitted is not user activity. It’s all there in your link.
You:
Mozilla:
User interactions are not user activities to you?
@helenslunch its also posted in a privacy guides article…
This is what the Hobbyist was referring to.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2024/07/14/mozilla-disappoints-us-yet-again-2/