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.

  • refalo@programming.dev
    2·
    8 hours ago

    such a qol upgrade

    I don’t think you’re wrong, but I do think that if everyone thought that, they would be doing it already.

    I have routinely tried to get friends and family to use ad-blockers and they simply don’t care enough to even attempt to download one.