• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I don’t mean all Lemmy users. I mean a surprisingly large amount that non-stop hate on Mozilla and Firefox.

    I’ve even seen two users that hate Mozilla/Firefox so much that they wrote about it in their account bio, which I find crazy.

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      2 months ago

      Mozilla have made a series of unpopular choices, especially their enabling of telemetry for advertisers that does nothing to benefit users.

      It is no surprise some people are vocally unhappy.

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        2 months ago

        Private ads that make user tracking impossible absolutely benefits users, and the ad industry would be a lot less of a cancerous cesspit if it were the norm.

        It’s certainly been unpopular, but that’s more because most people on Lemmy don’t read past ragebait headlines and assume the worst.

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            2 months ago

            Lmao

            Putting aside for a moment how obviously untrue that is, Mozilla doesn’t even get the data.

            You’re just showing how clueless you are. You don’t even know how the system works.

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          2 months ago

          It’s just another source of telemetry for advertisers and won’t stop any of the existing methods of tracking.

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            2 months ago

            It’s a private alternative.

            I never said Mozilla was supreme dictator of the web and could force everyone to follow suit.

            “Bad things still exist so Mozilla shouldn’t develop good things” is not a rational take.

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              2 months ago

              The problem is that it isn’t an alternative, it is an additional and it does not benefit users in any way.