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Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 3 hours ago by Blizzard@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23894598

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.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 24 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A bit disingenuous to call explaining what they're doing as doubling down.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 24 points 1 hour ago

Also disingeneous to call it adding ads to firefox, because that's also not what is happening. They're trying to replace cookies with something better for our privacy, and them developing this feature will not impact any users who block ads or disable tracking cookies already.

I think they should go ahead and make the feature so that people who don't care about ads at least don't get tracked.

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta pay the bills somehow, and I’m just happy they care about privacy.

[–] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

I dislike ads as much as the next person, and find uBlock Origin necessary for browsing the web, but the cold fact is that the internet is run with advertising, whether you like it or not.

If that is done without creating a profile on me, and without crippling the reading/viewing experience, I can tolerate advertisement.

I assume this is also an action towards becoming independent from Google funding; which is a good thing.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The internet is run with egress contracts. The web is run with ads.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Okay bud. Have a biscuit 🍪

[–] mnmalst@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 hour ago

Happy to see some sane comments here. Couldn't have said it better. You can hate ads and still keep a foot in reality.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I absolute despise ads but they are a necessary evil, it can be implemented well if it is not done intrusive and doesn't take up more space then the content it self. Also if it are mostly scam ads and such they might as well not have ads at all.