Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox - eviltoast
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LAURA CHAMBERS, CEO, MOZILLA CORPORATION As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising. Our hypothesis is that we n

Despite its emphasis on protecting privacy, Mozilla is moving towards integrating ads, backed by new infrastructure from their acquisition of Anonym. They claim this will maintain a balance between user control and online ad economics, using privacy-preserving tech. However, this shift appears to contradict Mozilla’s earlier stance of protecting users from invasive advertising practices, and it signals a change in their priorities.

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
    222·
    2 months ago

    You do understand those forks do 1% of the work required to keep the Firefox codebase performant, standards compliant and technically sound?

    If Mozilla disappears those forks will too.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Hopefully Mozilla employees will kick out their money sink CEO with double legs before the browser disappears for good.

      • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
        5·
        2 months ago

        I don’t know if it’s the CEO, the board or the wider leadership team but I agree they haven’t been laser focused on building a better browser and that isn’t good enough.

        • anachronist@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          It’s the board and the wider leadership who are controlled by Google and intent on destroying Firefox. The current CEO is pretty new, and replaced a heavily criticized CEO that spent years overseeing the decline of Firefox. The new CEO is a former McKinsey consultant.