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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

as seen via jwz, the tail wagging the dog continues (archive) at mozilla

"if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" but the wrong way around. I guess they got tired of begging google for money?

And, for the foreseeable future at least, advertising is a key commercial engine of the internet

this tracks analogously to something I've been saying for a while as well, but with some differences. one of the most notable is the misrepresentation here of "the internet", in the stead of "all the entities playing the online advertising game to extract from everyone else"

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks I hate it.

[Advertising is] the most efficient way to ensure the majority of content remains free and accessible to as many people as possible.

Content is a scarce resource y'know. Heaven forbid the content farms go out of business; or we might end up having to read Sherlock Holmes isekai fanfiction rather than a content farm's two paragraphs and three screen-fulls of ads surrounding the tweet du jour. That would be ~~terrible~~ actually quite nice.

We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. But taking on controversial topics because we believe they make the internet better for all of us is a key feature of Mozilla’s history

WTF. How is it possible for a company to be this self-congratulatory about entering the advertising space?! Someone needs to fork Firefox.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

this aged like fine milk (granted it's from 2019)

It is your moral obligation to use Firefox

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

the predominant fork (afaik) is called LibreWolf

some indications that it is not atm entirely resilient to the upstream bullshit, but I’m curiously eyeballing whether that changes

personally, I’m hoping on servo

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

This particular bit of news has me so down. :(

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I guess they got tired of begging google for money?

If the stars come right, there may not be a Google to beg for money

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