"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again
blog.privacyguides.org
"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
  • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
    362·
    4 months ago

    The CTO of Mozilla and some other employee are posting on r/firefox defending this shit.

    They say it is their job to help the adtech industry, by finding a compromise between my interests and Facebook & co’s interest. Only they get 90% of their revenue from adtech, so their actual job is to sell me out.

    This “plan” involves collecting additional data on behalf of adtech right now, and then there’s a hypothetical second step, in which they will lobby to force this new system on everyone. Only (a) this second step is not going to happen, and (b) instead of being tracked by adtech companies, I’d now be tracked by “trusted third parties” or some shit which then sell my data, in aggregated form, to adtech companies. Wow. Great improvement this, we now have middlemen that are, uh, by semantic re-definition, not adtech companies.

    So the actual second step is “???” and the third step is presumably “profit”.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    323·
    4 months ago

    Firefox user and evangelist of over a decade. Fuck Firefox for this.

      • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        A lot of us did but not everyone knows about LibreWolf or Mullvad etc

        Also can’t help but think the average person will see the news about Mozilla’s new trackers and tell themselves ‘Well if I’m gonna be tracked anyway I might as well stick with Chrome’

        • sunzu@kbin.run
          2·
          4 months ago

          Dawg thats exactly the play here. Mozilla is infiltreated and being gutted from within.

          Let’s get real, corpos took over.

          I got same vibes from signal too bte but when I say shot about that clown. Whittiker or whatever, I am the bad guy lol

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    145·
    4 months ago

    For those interested in an alternative, and especially if you are a programmer, the Ladybird browser appears to be the most promising independent browser that could someday take Firefox’s crown.