Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox - eviltoast

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.

  • pipe01@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    It’s crazy how for me the worst thing about Firefox is how much people complain about it online, never had a single issue with it

    • Fades@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Firefox hate has become more and more rampant as Google tries to tighten their fist around chromium challengers