What is Mozilla's new data collection feature, and how to disable it


Information collected by a new Firefox feature on online user activity is encrypted, and yet critics complain that the feature has been activated as a default – without users' consent. — Photo: Catherine Waibel/dpa

BERLIN: Mozilla Firefox recently introduced a feature called privacy-preserving attribution (PPA).

With the feature, that came with the update to version 128 of the browser, Mozilla aims "to help sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about individual people."

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