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Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

69% of the world population doesn't use ad blockers. Google made their billions from people clicking on ads.

Not only are we technical folks, only 5% of the population, not their target audience, it seems most people don't care enough about ads to ever try to stop them... at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

69%

Nice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

I installed local-network-wide DNS adblockers. After the change my mother found me and asked me why she couldn’t see the ads: she needed the ads and were enjoying them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours 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.