For years, DataEthics.eu has recommend the use of the Firefox browser, run by Mozilla Corporation, which is affiliated with the non-profit foundation Mozilla. Unfortunately, and probably because Mozilla is looking into a big decline in revenue, the browser has put on tracking-by-default according to Noyb.eu who has filed a complaint against Mozilla:
Today, noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser. Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behaviour on websites. In essence, the browser is now controlling the tracking, rather than individual websites. While this might be an improvement compared to even more invasive cookie tracking, the company never asked its users if they wanted to enable it.
For years, Mozillas main income has come from Google, who is paying a lot of money to have it’s search engine as a default search engine in the Firefox browser. Google is also paying Apple for that in their Safari browser. But it is illegal, according to a rather new antitrust decision in the US, which means that Mozilla is in for a big revenue loss.
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