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

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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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[-] kotlasu@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm so glad that Libre Wolf fork exists, that doesn't change a fact of Mozilla foundation goes in a really wrong direction :/

Edit: typo

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fork is not maintained by LibreOffice.

[-] kotlasu@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, thanks - autocorrect messed up my post (I meant Libre Wolf). it’s fixed now

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Don't quote me on this but if I remember correctly, Mozilla foundation has nothing to do with Firefox development and was also kind of shady for some reason.

[-] kotlasu@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for pointing this out - I’ll do some research on this topic in a free time (as I don’t know much facts about Mozilla foundation) :)

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