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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

As we integrate Anonym into the Mozilla family

Hoo-boy. I hope this goes well..!

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Surely it will..

About Anonym: Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives Brad Smallwood and Graham Mudd. The company was backed by Griffin Gaming Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Heracles Capital as well as a number of strategic individual investors.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

🙄😮‍💨

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

I don't see the big deal here. Mozilla relies on advertising for its revenue. They're incorporating a new method which prioritizes user privacy first and foremost, even preventing the advertisers from accessing user information. Isn't this an improvement for both Mozilla and their users?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

The big deal is advertising. Advertising is a corruption of everything it touches. They may as well partner with privacy-protecting deforestation and mining interests.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed. I mean, I'm blocking ads as much the next guy and that's not going to change in any foreseeable future, but I cannot see how introduction of privacy preserving advertising platform could possibly be seen as anything other than an improvement over the current, completely perverse, situation. It would be better for people who don't block ads, so if this acquisition would advance uses of privacy-respecting advertising systems and simultaneously get some revenue to Mozilla then this sounds quite like a win-win to me.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I knew that the bloody AirBNB CEO was a bad sign of more to come. Mozilla is dead.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Their current interim CEO previously worked at AirBNB. I've a hard time trusting the judgement of someone who'd help upend various housing markets across the globe.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

No thanks I'll stick with privacy preserving digital adblocking

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Cool. Today I‘m switching to LibreWolf and finally removing Firefox.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

God damnit.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Mozilla, you're drunk. Go home and go to bed.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, perfect! I've always wanted Mozilla to become an advertising company....... said no one, ever.

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