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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

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"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

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DeadNinja
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I take it that you were referring to Mull (Browser) and not MullVad (VPN service).
- sunzu
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  Mull is a FF based browser for android. I am talking about Mullvad Browser for the desktop, which is FF and Tor fusion product.
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- @Potatisen
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  Not sure what he meant BUT Mullvad does have a lil’ browsy boi.
  
  https://mullvad.net/en/browser

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