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Well, I think this is a huge misstep if that’s really your mission statement, Mozilla. Selling “my” eyeballs to ad vendors is not giving me control of my online experience.
It’s, frankly, behavior we expect from Google. From Apple. Facebook. Is this the company you wish to keep?
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What is malicious about this? The advertisers have no access to personal information.
Advertising is malicious.
The advertising industry, which generally means the corporate owned, mass surveillance apparatus that is every authoritarians wet dream is malicious.
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Why?
Fast, small footprint, highly battery life friendly. Bunch of extensions. Extensions support on desktop and mobile. Trustworthy repository of extensions. Special ad-blocking extensions API that delivers high performance and does not require extensions access to content of the page. Tab-groups out-of-the-box. Read later feature that is synchronised across devices out of the box, no third party service required. Bunch…
Safari is nowadays getting ~$15,000,000,000 per year with a Google search deal. Meanwhile Mozilla has been ignoring their core user base going as far as laying off development teams working on Firefox components in the name of cost saving while they try to diversify income to support the rest of Mozilla (which makes basically nothing) yet they've retain their own Google search deal with lower user share for At this p…
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Fast, small footprint, highly battery life friendly. Bunch of extensions. Extensions support on desktop and mobile. Trustworthy repository of extensions. Special ad-blocking extensions API that delivers high performance and does not require extensions access to content of the page. Tab-groups out-of-the-box. Read later feature that is synchronised across devices out of the box, no third party service required. Bunch…
That sounds excellent, actually. What's the apple hide my email thing though?
I know this has been posted before, but it seems to be getting some traction and outrage on twitter and other social media today. Props to Mozilla for finding revenue diversification opportunities, but this still doesn't feel quite right since it's enabled by default.
Who would deliberately enable this, given that the Mozilla user base is the kind that would have adblocker extensions?
I'm largely indifferent as I don't use Firefox but find it irksome that they are routinely touted as the torchbearers of privacy in the browser world.
But it is very very annoying.
Safari is the best browser there is right now, hands down.