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.

  • mnmalst@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours 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.

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        3 hours ago

        If ads are necessary for the internet, I’m going back to reading books. It was fun y’all.

        • parpol
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          37 minutes ago

          They put ads in books too, unfortunately. The internet ones you can block.