Mozilla explains their recent foray into advertising - A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy - eviltoast
A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy | The Mozilla Blog
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MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

  • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
    214·
    2 months ago

    And my privacy should not come at the cost of capitalists trying to still figure out how to push their poison into my brain; verifiably anonymized or not. Flat out point blank period. The ad-block, tracker fuzzers, and fingerprint meddlers aren’t coming out of my browser; and if they mysteriously ‘disappear’, I’m moving.

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
      34·
      2 months ago

      Brother. Mozilla is the only browser company letting you keep those things, so you’re not “moving” anywhere. And every feature they’ve announced is not targeted at you; your (and my) customized setup where we never see an ad and leave minimal trace is still fully supported. The PPA is designed to improve the state of Web advertising as a whole, and improve the situation for the normal user who is basically leaving a rich personal history on every site they visit.

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        42·
        2 months ago

        PPA does not reduce any tracking data that currently exist in ads, but it does collect extra data without consent.

        And since this is targeted for the “normal user,” that makes its label much more deceptive. People might assume disabling it will decrease their privacy, which is untrue in every sense possible.