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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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

submitted 3 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The setting from the original post is for sites in general, it's not specifically about Mozilla sites. I'm not sure how having this option relates to their revenue, unless Google put it in their search contract with them?

Edit: Wait, I see people mentioning Mozilla acquired an ad company?

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Yes, they did.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 months ago

Jesus.

you were the chosen one meme