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We have really listened this time: Introducing Ads Performance, re-imagined, aka Anonym Private Audiences. Now in Beta, coming to your favorite browser soon. (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today, we’re unveiling Anonym Private Audiences: a confidential computing solution allowing advertisers to securely build new audiences and boost campaign results.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Omg. Again? Will they never learn? Their users do not want ads at all. But they are proving again and again they became just an ad company.

Check Librewolf or Ironfox on android.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

And why is it that people don’t want to see any ads at all? Some people argue that ads can help you discover products and services you might want to buy? Well, I tried that.

Got a separate computer just for this experiment. Installed Chrome, used online services that have ads etc. I exposed myself to tracking and ads for a while, and the ads I saw on that computer are still completely irrelevant. I’ve even told some sites exactly what I like, and the ad targeting still sucks.

Nobody benefits from this, except for the ad companies. Advertisers loose their money, and they get no sales in return (at least not from mme). Ad companies and related platforms get the money for showing me stuff I will never buy, while the ads infuriate me at every turn.

Even in the best case scenario where the ad companies have all of my data, they still can’t figure out what I might want to buy. The whole idea of ads is just completely broken. On my other computers where I actually do more serious stuff, I use every tool in my arsenal to block all of this digital cancer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That's exactly what I use!