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 place and read 'first-party cookies,' which aren’t blocked by the browser, unlike third-party
  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    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.

      • wirehead@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        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.

  • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    I have seen certain links on the internet, where,

    The text reads “example.com”, and when you hover over it, the little textbox at the bottom left also reads “example.com”

    but if you click to open the link in a new tab or if you right click and copy the link and paste it in the address bar, it’s actually a completely different link

    it’s shady af! and im wondering if it’s the same thing as what this article is describing, and if not, how they are able to do it?