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Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary

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Mozilla is introducing a new feature to Firefox aimed at protecting users from bounce trackers, the browser developer has announced. Bounce tracking is a technique where a user clicks a link but ends up reaching their intended destination via an intermediary tracking page. This allows trackers to pl...

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9mo ago

Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary

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I don't get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.
- Clearly it isn't so useless, or they wouldn't do it.
  
  More to the point, the company using shady means to collect the data does not need to care if the data is useful, just that it's marketable.
  
  It's like grifting, but also a pyramid scheme.
  
  A lot gets used. A lot doesn’t. The technology is designed with trust in mind that it won’t be abused. It completely is. We should really be redesigning protocols to not be intrusive. A lot of information is given that is no longer needed to be functional.
- They’re effectively crackheads

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