The Austrian data protection authority (DPA) has received a complaint from Vienna-based privacy non-profit noyb, short for None Of Your Business, against Firefox maker Mozilla for enabling a new feature called Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) without specifically requesting users’ consent.
This feature enables Firefox to track user behavior on websites, despite its comforting moniker “Noyb stated. Essentially, the monitoring is now at the control of the browser rather than specific websites.”
Additionally, Noyb criticized Mozilla for supposedly adopting Google’s strategy by “secretly” turning on the feature by default without alerting users to it.
PPA is similar to Google’s Privacy Sandbox project in Chrome and is now enabled as an experimental feature in Firefox version 128 read more Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent.
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