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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

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.

  • hackerwacker@lemmy.ml
    2·
    35 minutes ago

    I will never ever accept any ad technology except maybe <a href="company_url"><img src="funny_picture.gif"></a>

  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    49 minutes ago

    It’d be cool if Mozilla could just stick with one thing for more than a couple months. Even if that thing is terrible. Right now it’s like some physical embodiment of ADHD is running the company.

  • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
    16·
    3 hours ago

    I’m not interested in my computer striking a balance between my needs and the needs of people seeking to manipulate me into buying things.

    I paid for my computer, it serves my needs. Yes I do run Linux, how did you guess?

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
      2·
      32 minutes ago

      But that isn’t the balance that’s being struck. Mozilla is trying to balance between useful services being available for free and people’s right to privacy. If you’re using any websites that has staff employed, they’re more likely than not being paid for by advertising.

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    114·
    5 hours ago

    Mozilla sold out a long time ago, they are nothing like they used to be. Everyone should be ditching Firefox for forks if possible. Yes, Firefox is still miles ahead of anything Chromium-based but we can’t trust Mozilla to not screw over their users anymore (and it’s been apparent for YEARS…Pocket, “Sponsored” shortcuts and links, Mozilla VPN popup ads, this behavior is hardly new). What can we trust? Firefox forks with the bullshit stripped out, mostly. I’ve been using LibreWolf for several years on my Linux, Windows, and MacOS systems now. I originally switched because of the Mozilla VPN popups but at the time, complaining about those popups was met with a bunch of Mozilla apologists going “it’s not that bad” “they’re a big company and they need their precious monies”…no. That was ADVERTISING front and center, and it was in Firefox years ago. So was Pocket. So was having Amazon links auto-filled on the new tab shortcuts. Go to something that isn’t run by money. Go to a community-maintained and sanitized fork.

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
      3·
      31 minutes ago

      You do understand those forks do 1% of the work required to keep the Firefox codebase performant, standards compliant and technically sound?

      If Mozilla disappears those forks will too.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
      41·
      3 hours ago

      Been called an idiot for saying that I wouldn’t trust Firefox as far as I can throw it like 2 months ago after they made telemetry opt out.

      I can’t believe that someone who is privacy conscientious would just stick to their guns rather than watching out for their privacy.

      I just hope someone else picks up the shards and runs with it and then we can all just focus on making them better instead of getting riled up over a god damn browser lol.