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

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.

  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    That’s really nuts to me when I run into it in the wild. It’s so easy and such a qol upgrade. I know a guy who self hosts a bunch of services, programming job, but does not use any ad block at all. He’s on the computer all day. Just looking at ads.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      1·
      14 hours ago

      I occasionally accidentally open the fandom page for a game on Chrome with no ad block (which I keep around for Google apps) and it’s unusable. Go there on Firefox with ublock origin and it’s fine

      And there’s worse sites than that

      Download sites for things like Minecraft mods have several competing “download” buttons without ad block

      It’s nuts people might accept these, let alone want them

    • refalo@programming.dev
      2·
      1 day 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.