"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
  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
    317·
    5 months ago

    Great article, Makes a lot of the arguments I made against advertiser and mozilla apologists in the previous threads better than I could have.

    I think

    PPA is an additional privacy attack surface that has no value for end users whatsoever […]

    and

    If they truly believed this was the one path away from the constant data theft perpetuated by the advertising industry, they would’ve announced this loudly and proudly. They could’ve given the privacy and general Firefox communities ample time to scrutinize the protocol beforehand.

    sums it up pretty well.

    • solrize@lemmy.ml
      93·
      5 months ago

      scrutinize the protocol beforehand.

      Sorry but that buys into the data miners’ self serving myths. It implies the protocol is ok unless some failure makes it leak more information than was intended. In fact it’s invasive even if it works exactly as hoped. “Tracking” is a misnomer too. It’s hostile surveillance even if it’s at population level. (Any nonconsensual surveillance that produces info to be used by people you don’t like is hostile by definition. And it’s near guaranteed that some of the buyers-advertisers, political campaigns and funders, govt agencies, whatever-will be people you don’t like). So shut it down.