Despite its emphasis on protecting privacy, Mozilla is moving towards integrating ads, backed by new infrastructure from their acquisition of Anonym. They claim this will maintain a balance between user control and online ad economics, using privacy-preserving tech. However, this shift appears to contradict Mozilla’s earlier stance of protecting users from invasive advertising practices, and it signals a change in their priorities.

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    1 month ago

    But you just said

    Mozilla could have focused on being user-supported through fundraising like Wikipedia.

    It is an option.

    Clearly it isn’t working well enough for them.