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Is there some way to ensure the donation money will actually go to Firefox and not to some sort of "diversity" campaign?
Yikes why would you not want companies investing in diversity? Especially if they are the interface to our online world?
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Is there some way to ensure the donation money will actually go to Firefox and not to some sort of "diversity" campaign?
Yikes why would you not want companies investing in diversity? Especially if they are the interface to our online world?
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Is there some way to ensure the donation money will actually go to Firefox and not to some sort of "diversity" campaign?
Yikes why would you not want companies investing in diversity? Especially if they are the interface to our online world?
Those who want a world where Firefox has a higher market share and mind share, please consider doing the following: 1. Evangelize Firefox to people you know any chance you get and show them all the reasons why its better than Chrome (focus on privacy as an important point). Show them how great browsing can be with a few key extensions (like uBlock Origin, Containers, Privacy Possum, etc.). This does not imply that Mo…
So instead with my non-techsavvy friends I usually just set up Firefox with ublock and tell them to give it a try. You don't have to mention ublock is available on chrome too, right?
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Is there some way to ensure the donation money will actually go to Firefox and not to some sort of "diversity" campaign?
Yikes why would you not want companies investing in diversity? Especially if they are the interface to our online world?
Wikipedia is a big one for this: the donation campaign is all about 'keeping our servers running', and then huge chunks of the spending goes on community feelgood stuff.
I've nothing against diversity campaigning but if you were to treat donation like any other 'purchase' you'd be pretty miffed if you thought you were ordering a cheeseburger and you got a carrot and the waiter gave himself a bottle of beer.
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The ads that I find most useful are the ones which mimic olde newspaper/magazine ads by simply showing things relevant to their general readership. The advertisers don't need to know a thing about me, they just need to know the general demographics and interests of the publication. For example, the ads on this blog[1] are far more relevant and less invasive/annoying than anything that Google ever showed me before I s…
Consider this though, would those marketing schmucks invest that much money into dystopian tracking on the web if they didn't have the data to back it up? The problem is in the user. They do this because we let them. Spread the adblock around your non-technical peers whenever you can.
I agree that we should block those even harder. The bad side is that whitelisting sites doesn't work well and well behaved actors are punished too. Especially those, since they do not employ measures against blocking in the first place. That does cost those sites that you actually do want to support.
So the current situation is that bad actors ruin it for everyone.
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The ads that I find most useful are the ones which mimic olde newspaper/magazine ads by simply showing things relevant to their general readership. The advertisers don't need to know a thing about me, they just need to know the general demographics and interests of the publication. For example, the ads on this blog[1] are far more relevant and less invasive/annoying than anything that Google ever showed me before I s…
Are you sure hackaday isn’t using third party ad networks?
So if they do use an ad network, it seems like one that can connect me with products that I'm interested in without being intrusive.
I guess that I have no assurances that they aren't collecting my information and not using it, but down that road lies madness.
Already lot of sites are not tested on Firefox and many explicitly so [1]. Now the web publishers that rely on ads will have less incentive to support Firefox. They might even actively promote other browsers. Similar to how IE was discouraged by websites explicitly. "This site works best on Chrome" is only what is needed now to reduce the Firefox userbase further. Note - This comment was typed on firefox. [1] https:/…
If you are offering services to us, you probably can’t afford to ignore FF. If you are a German company, that goes double.
Those who want a world where Firefox has a higher market share and mind share, please consider doing the following: 1. Evangelize Firefox to people you know any chance you get and show them all the reasons why its better than Chrome (focus on privacy as an important point). Show them how great browsing can be with a few key extensions (like uBlock Origin, Containers, Privacy Possum, etc.). This does not imply that Mo…
I used to be one of these people but I am no longer. I have switched my default browser from Firefox to Brave since I cannot withstand Mozillas bullshit anymore.
Not only is it a complete joke that firefox put Google Analytics on their privacy pages but their actions of "wokeness" in which they fired Brendan Eich and all their diversity shit has left me very unhappy with Mozilla as an organisation. I stopped my monthly donation a while back and I do not recommend Firefox anymore, only Brave.
Why should I donate money towards Firefox when I know it's probably not going to fund Firefox but rather some woke campaign that I am against? They even fired their own CEO when he privately used his own money to fund a political campaign. That is not ok according to Mozilla since diversity of opinion is not something they believe in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MozillaInAction/top/?t=all (there is a lot of other crap in there as well, but mainly about Mozilla and other tech companies)