Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog
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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.

  • Lexam@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    3 months ago

    I choose to keep both feet firmly planted in unreality.

    • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz
      71·
      3 months ago

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

      • parpol
        21·
        3 months ago

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