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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 2 years ago

Firefox tracks you with "privacy preserving" feature

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Firefox tracks you with "privacy preserving" feature

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 2 years ago
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Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature
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noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser which tracks user behaviour on websites.

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  • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
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    Anyone able to specify where in settings is the option to switch this off?

    • ownsauce@lemmy.world
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      https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution?as=u&utm_source=inproduct#w_how-can-i-disable-ppa

      • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Thank you!

  • Chivera@lemmy.world
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    So which browser should I switch to now?

    • nul
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      Windows. As in, give up on computing and look out the window until it is time to sleep.

    • BatrickPateman@lemmy.world
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      Stay with that and just disable the feature? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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