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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.
- fireshell ( @fireshell@lemmy.ml ) English3•2 hours ago
I can already see a crowd of advertisers running to them for the remaining 3% of its users.
- melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 4•3 hours ago
I’m very happy that I moved to Floorp.
No idea what’s that but it sounds… sticky.
- CrabAndBroom ( @CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) English1•2 hours ago
Here ya go! it’s a Japanese fork of FF that’s more focused on privacy. I prefer Librewolf personally but it’s good to have options I guess.
- flappy ( @flappy@lemm.ee ) 9•7 hours ago
So banning ublock origin lite from the addon store was malice, after all?
That means they will drop MV2 as soon as Chrome ends the business/legacy support, since they were the alternative.
- disguised_doge ( @disguised_doge@kbin.earth ) 13•6 hours ago
I think the ublock origin lite thing was a legitimate mistake, though I understand Mozilla’s depleting benefit of the doubt.
- melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 4•3 hours ago
THe developer also don’t want to develop uBLock Origin Lite. Mozilla is sucking all energy out of people.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English2•4 hours ago
of course they don’t want, it’s such an inferior addon that it’s almost useless for privacy. it’s little besides just visually hiding ads. but that’s the best that can be done on chrome
- melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 3•35 minutes ago
uh… no… The add-on was also developed for Firefox, which still have Manifest V2. Because of the headache of Mozilla, Hill decided to stop development for Mozilla and only release the latest (signed) add-on via github, without further updates. The developer just makes a statement that it’s getting so worse to develop for Firefox that he just doesn’t do it anymore.
- sabreW4K3 ( @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ) 39•9 hours ago
A bit disingenuous to call explaining what they’re doing as doubling down.
- parpol ( @parpol@programming.dev ) 39•9 hours ago
Also disingeneous to call it adding ads to firefox, because that’s also not what is happening. They’re trying to replace cookies with something better for our privacy, and them developing this feature will not impact any users who block ads or disable tracking cookies already.
I think they should go ahead and make the feature so that people who don’t care about ads at least don’t get tracked.
- LWD ( @LWD@lemm.ee ) 1•2 hours ago
disingeneous to call it adding ads
Who called it adding
- youmaynotknow ( @jjlinux@lemmy.ml ) 9•4 hours ago
They are not trying to “replace” cookies. This is effectively adding yet another way to track users. Sure, may not be as invasive as cookies, but this does nothing to remove or modify them either.
Then there’s the fact thay they deployed this behind the scenes and did not mention it until they were called out.
This comment alone:
“As part of this work, we are also committing to being transparent and open about our intent and plans prior to launching tests or features.”
… means they have no intention to be honest about shit.
- BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) 1•42 minutes ago
Didn’t we go through all this like a month ago?
Why are people still excusing Mozilla for this?
- parpol ( @parpol@programming.dev ) 3•3 hours ago
It doesn’t track users. It collects anonymous statistics and assign them to a unique ID without storing any other information about the user.
And it IS meant to replace cookies, but you can’t just replace them all at once and disable the legacy cookies. It is going to have a gradual transition.
And they did tell us about this many months ago.
- BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) 2•42 minutes ago
Hahaha, because data can never be de-anonymised, right?
Oh, yea, that’s repeatedly been show to not be true.