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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.

  • Kot Lasu@lemmy.zipEnglish
    62·
    3 个月前

    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

      • Kot Lasu@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

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

    • Blizzard@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      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.

      • Kot Lasu@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        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) :)