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Mozilla explains their recent foray into advertising - A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy (blog.mozilla.org)

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MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (11 children)

A fundamental flaw in this, is it still involves user data, even if "anonymized". You can advertise without any user data. We do it all the time. Does a television channel know your gender? Does a radio station know if you bought a car recently? Does the newspaper know your hobbies?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thats a good point, those ads are far less profitable though, and as a result if mozilla offered that kind of service nobody would use it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which will lead to more and more pressure to drop privacy protections for profit until there is no real reason to not just use chrome.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Did you read about the system their ads use? Their system uses a new, anonymised system that has NOTHING TO DO with the current way tracking works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're completely right and I'm terribly disappointed that nuances like these get reflex downvoted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

tbf my comment was shittily and rudely phrased, i dont blame them

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