For these who missed it: Mozilla Faces GDPR Complaint Over New Firefox Tracking Feature

NOYB, a European privacy group has filed a complaint with Austrian authorities, alleging that Mozilla breached GDPR by enabling “Privacy Preserving Attribution” (PPA), a tracking feature in Firefox, by default without user consent.

It got spicy with July's update to version 128, when Mozilla jumped on Google like dark side to collect data for advertisers = monetizing Firefox users (their thinking was probably something like this: when websites are doing it, when Google is doing it, why not us 🤷‍♂️

How to turn it off and more details in the original article by Hackread: https://hackread.com/mozilla-gdpr-complaint-firefox-tracking-feature/

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