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No, you see, it's fine, because "PPA does not involve sending information about your browsing activities to anyone." Instead, Firefox merely "submits a report" if you "visit a site and do something", which is totally different from "sending data" about "browsing activities".

Screenshot from a mealy-mouthed Firefox support page.

Privacy-preserving attribution works as follows:

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2. If you visit the destination website and do something that the website considers to be important enough to count (a “conversion”), that website can ask Firefox to generate a report. […]

3. Firefox creates a report based on what the website asks, but does not give the result to the website. Instead, Firefox encrypts the report and anonymously submits it using the Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) to an “aggregation service”.

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PPA does not involve sending information about your browsing activities to anyone. […]
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YYYYyyeah "So you see, because the checkbox has the words 'does not collect data about you' printed underneath it, the data we have collected about you was not actually collected."

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