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I had a low expectations from Mozilla, but holy shit. (www.mozilla.org)

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At that stage they are not hiding that they are a ads and AI company anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not in the browser. From web pages sure, but it sure as hell sounds like they're going to shove ads in the browser like MS has been testing in the start menu. Once that starts who knows, maybe they'll have their own little Chrome manifest v3 rollout that breaks adblocking for webpages too.

Based on this and the past year of "mistakes" it's sure looking more and more like they're trying to push ahead on the enshittification path.

If they're so desperate to find other sources of income why does the Mozilla CEO not take a pay cut out of that 10 million/year

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm all for shitting on bad decisions by mozilla but pretty sure there has been zero mention of ads in the actual browser itself. I think you are making shit up. Your response sounds like pure emotion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

We’re growing the Mozilla Ads product team, passionate about display advertising in Mozilla products that is privacy-respecting and values-aligned. You will be one of the lead engineers that will craft, build, and be responsible for the core systems, both front-end and back-end, that support advertising in clients (Firefox, MDN, Pocket, Fakespot, etc). You and your team will be the domain guides when it comes to advertising, providing direction and shepherding to various product teams across Mozilla.

Ofc some reading between the lines is needed, they're not going to just blatantly say something they know will be incredibly unpopular this early.

And like I said, its just another on a pile of mounting evidence of a year of bad decisions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

It's definitely concerning the way it's going. I'll say that much. I really hope that doesn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

They're not going to serve ads in page outside of sponsored tiles and things of that ilk and there's been no suggestion otherwise.