STOCKHOLM, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing the Firefox browser maker of tracking user behaviour on websites without consent.

NOYB (None Of Your Business), the digital rights group founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, said Mozilla has enabled a so-called “privacy preserving attribution” feature that turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites without directly telling its users.

Mozilla had defended the feature, saying it wanted to help websites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about individual people. By offering what it called a non-invasive alternative to cross-site tracking, it hoped to significantly reduce collecting individual information.

  • @[email protected]
    -12•2 months ago

    I think there’s kind of a 3rd choice, WebKit.

    Chrome was great, till it wasn’t. IE always was bad. Edge is chromium.

    Firefox has stayed closer to “don’t be evil” than many companies. Is say far more than the other options.

    • @ilinamorato
      12•2 months ago

      WebKit is really only available on Apple devices in any meaningful way.

      • @[email protected]
        -1•2 months ago

        Completely agree. I understood WebKit to be a different browse engine than chromium or Firefox.

        While chromium and Firefox have wider platform options, there’s “kind of” a 3rd runner even though locked to apple.

        I agree Linux and open source is king.

    • @[email protected]
      6•2 months ago

      I think there’s kind of a 3rd choice, WebKit.

      That’s where Chromium came from originally, so not really 3rd.

      • @[email protected]
        3•2 months ago

        I was thinking WebKit was closer to Netscape in origin.

        You made me go look it up. 😉 and I think we’re both wrong…. (Here’s my edit…. Poster above is right. I read it wrong, so only I am wrong on the origin of WebKit)

        Below from Wikipedia:

        WebKit started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS software libraries from KDE.

        On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it had forked WebCore, a component of WebKit, to be used in future versions of Google Chrome