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Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market" (blog.mozilla.org)

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[-] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 month ago

I wonder if this has anything to do with the Google ad monopoly case?

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[-] notous@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Time to switch to other fork

[-] cybermass@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

Does this mean they are gonna brick ublock origin and force me to Google's 3.0 shit? (I forgot the name of it)

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

Burn the phoenix again.

[-] qlya@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Not good

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

rockbottom: NOBODY wants to see the ads you throw in our faces. doesnt matter that, as you claim, those ad views pay you for your content. there is no good way to make those ads palatable.

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Technically correct: literally no one does fit the criteria for not everyone.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

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[-] DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

https://ladybird.org/

[-] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks but

We are targeting a first Alpha release for early adopters in 2026.

We need an alternative before that

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[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I will go against the tide here and welcome this change. The web is powered by advertising and tracking. It will happen whether Mozilla is part of it or not. In that case, I would much rather have a website using a Mozilla advertising service that is more ethical and respects the user more than the ones from big tech. It's a lesser of two evils and I support this. I would of course rather have no ads at all but we don't live in a fairy tale world and evil companies exist. And like most ads currently in Firefox, I fully trust we will be able to disable them easily, just like we can right now.

I think this is a good thing that Mozilla is finally trying to distance itself from Google's money because it ensures that maintaining the nonprofit is more sustainable

[-] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago

If Mozilla starts being aggressive to ad blocking, I'll agree with the common opinion on this post. But for now I'm more less neutral. If the choice is Mozilla dies or they do some ad stuff, I'd rather the latter. Whether the current and former people running Mozilla have made the right decisions or not to get to this point is kind of irrelevant, because people do not want Mozilla to disappear (even if they claim otherwise) because Mozilla is still a major driver of privacy-oriented work in w3c and web in general.

Aside from that... The only real way to stop ads and tracking, or at least prevent selling and sharing of data outside of the 1st party collector, is a legal path. Whether Anonym/Mozilla is as private as they are claiming, their intent is at least what a realistic legal solution to web tracking would condone that would continue to allow for revenue via ads. There is no way ads will ever go away in a capitalist economy, so it'll need to do something, blocked or not.

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