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Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 3 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As we integrate Anonym into the Mozilla family

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

[–] neme@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] IDew@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

🙄😮‍💨

[–] Vengefu1Tuna@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months 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.

[–] MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months 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.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who?

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months 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.

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

No thanks I'll stick with privacy preserving digital adblocking

[–] snoqualmieowl@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] xep@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago

God damnit.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

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