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

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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.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    51·
    1 month ago

    Didn’t we go through all this like a month ago?

    Why are people still excusing Mozilla for this?

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 month ago

      Right? They’ve done some good stuff over the years, but that does not eliminate the fact that they have chosen to be part of all the enshitification going on.