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

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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.

  • mnmalst@lemmy.zip
    203·
    3 months 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.

    • Lexam@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      I choose to keep both feet firmly planted in unreality.

      • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz
        91·
        3 months ago

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

          • TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Book ads are at least usually at the end of the book and for other books you might want to read. And they’re static. If internet ads were like book ads I wouldn’t have to block them.