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

submitted 1 month ago by Blizzard@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You do understand those forks do 1% of the work required to keep the Firefox codebase performant, standards compliant and technically sound?

If Mozilla disappears those forks will too.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully Mozilla employees will kick out their money sink CEO with double legs before the browser disappears for good.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t know if it’s the CEO, the board or the wider leadership team but I agree they haven’t been laser focused on building a better browser and that isn’t good enough.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

It's the board and the wider leadership who are controlled by Google and intent on destroying Firefox. The current CEO is pretty new, and replaced a heavily criticized CEO that spent years overseeing the decline of Firefox. The new CEO is a former McKinsey consultant.