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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

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.

  • flappy@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    So banning ublock origin lite from the addon store was malice, after all?

    That means they will drop MV2 as soon as Chrome ends the business/legacy support, since they were the alternative.

  • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Yet another Mozilla hit piece that seemingly-intentionally misrepresents the good they're doing for users.

    It begs the question: who has the means and motivation to consistently pay "journalists" to malign the only browser that has the slightest chance of tearing any significant amount of users away from chromium-based browsers?

    EDIT: Turns out the answer to my question above might, in fact, be OP! They wrote a patently false, inflammatory title that isn't supported by the article (or reality) at all, and I fell for it like a sucker.

    • felsiq@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      …did we read two different articles? The only link I see is to Mozilla’s own blog, explaining their choices in a relatively positive way. I’ve seen the effect you pointed out a lot, I just don’t see it here.

      • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        Nope; you read an article, and I just reacted to comments on Lemmy, assuming that those commenting had read the article.

        If I'd simply opened the link, I'd've seen it was on mozilla.org and would've realized it was just that the OP made a shitty clickbait title, not another Mozilla hit piece.

        Shame on you, OP! Also shame on me.

  • fireshell@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I can already see a crowd of advertisers running to them for the remaining 3% of its users.