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.

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    1 month ago

    And what else should be recommended?

    The choice is basically between Firefox or skinned Chromium.

    Do you really want to experience first-hand just why Internet Explorer was this hated?
    Here’s a hint: de facto monopoly on browser market that allowed them to control the web standards back then and their ideas were not good.

    it has become a sinking ship and I’m eager to see who picks up the shards and runs with it.

    I don’t think you have any idea how much work it takes to create a new browser.

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      1 month ago

      Labybird is a completely new upcoming open source browser, complete with its own from scratch engine

      Theres also Servo an open source engine led by the Linux Foundation

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        Ah yes, let’s recommend the browser that is “targeting a first Alpha release for early adopters in 2026.”