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.

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    People 100% aren’t going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you’d end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

    I’m not so convinced. I run a website with zero ads or tracking and I’m not a big corporation.