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EFF Says Mozilla's PPA is better than Google's Solution (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Mozilla’s system only measures the success rate of ads—it doesn’t help companies target those ads—and it’s less susceptible to abuse, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany@flipboard.com. “It’s much more privacy-preserving than Google’s version of the same feature.”

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Privacy experts say the new toggle is mostly harmless, but Firefox users saw it as a betrayal.

“They made this technology for advertisers, specifically,” says Jonah Aragon, founder of the Privacy Guides website. “There’s no direct benefit to the user in creating this. It’s software that only serves a party other than the user.”

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[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I still don't understand what's so bad about this. Isn't it a good thing for people not using adblocker and changes nothing for adblock users?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The problem is that they auto-opted all users into it, without giving notice or warning about what it is. They've done this before too with other "experiments". The problem is that Mozilla becoming an ad oriented business is bad for user privacy. No different to Apple's shift from hardware to services. The fox is infiltrating the hen house. Line must go up, and the users always pay the price for that with their data.

Turns out a user base who hates ad tech and surveillance capitalism doesn't want ad-tech or surveillance embedded in their browser. Who would've thought?