Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again
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Mozilla is reinvesting in Firefox after letting it languish for years. But some of those investments may upset their community of die-hards.

Mozilla’s system only measures the success rate of ads—it doesn’t help companies target those ads—and it’s less susceptible to abuse, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany@flipboard.com. “It’s much more privacy-preserving than Google’s version of the same feature.”

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Privacy experts say the new toggle is mostly harmless, but Firefox users saw it as a betrayal.

“They made this technology for advertisers, specifically,” says Jonah Aragon, founder of the Privacy Guides website. “There’s no direct benefit to the user in creating this. It’s software that only serves a party other than the user.”

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    81·
    5 months ago

    Wrong.

    Not an idealist, I’m not even mad, just calling out the hypocrisy because Mozilla did this quietly, not telling us at all.

    “I’m doing this for your benefit, but I’m not telling you about it”, where have we heard that before?

    Save me from people “doing things for my benefit”.

    Just so funny how you blatantly mis-charaterize this, even using pejoratives to label people who dislike Mozilla’s arguably adversarial approach.

    And frankly, they had a chance to develop a fair balance over 20 years ago, and chose to say “fuck all the users” instead. And the website owners keep repeating this. Ok, fine, I will never stop blocking ads - they chose this battleground, not me.

    To take your approach to making arguments: how’s the taste of boot today?