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For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
Firefox presents itself as the first choice for data protection. But the new version collects data for advertisers by default. Normal or a breach of trust?
What may sound good on paper does not go down well with many users for several reasons: Firstly, Firefox automatically delivers the Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) with the update to the new version, despite the "experimental" label. This is precisely where blogger Jonah Aragon's criticism comes in: He believes that Mozilla knows full well that Firefox users would not want such a function. There is also the question of how much Firefox users will actually trust a browser provider in future that advertises data protection but at the same time resorts to such measures.
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