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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

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

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Here's a take by a Mozilla employee :

Mozilla has been ad funded since 2005
Browser development is not sustainable by just donations
Transparency is most important

https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/112779506156690032

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Mozilla has been ad funded since 2005

It was funded through a deal with an ad company. It did not become an ad company itself until much more recently. jwz had a succinct and memorable response to the the absurd idea that really it's been ad-funded all along and that this makes things okay:

You are just another of those so-predictable people saying, "The animal shelter has always had a kitten-meat deli, why are you surprised?"

Yes, Mozilla started making absolutely horrific funding and management decisions many years ago. Today, they have taken this subtext and turned it into the actual text.

[–] fsxylo 20 points 3 months ago

That's certainly a quote that will stick with me.

[–] fernlike3923 15 points 3 months ago

Browser development might not be sustainable with user donations, but it sure as hell is sustainable when you get 400 million bucks by Google every year.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Firefox has never tried to run on donations though.

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

Yeah. I want to donate directly towards the development of FF, but I can't. I know several other people who of a similar disposition.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

« Ad funded » ? Don't they mean « Google funded » ?