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I wish Mozilla had been really clear about their intentions and end goals with this acquisition. On the face of it, it looks terrible. Especially when you look at their jettisoning of Servo.
What the hell are they up to if making a browser engine isn’t a core competency, but buying an ad company is considered a wise move?
One is just spending money, the other potentially brings you money in.
Well that’s cool if they want to become an ad company, but last I checked they are known for making a browser. I’m sure they’ll do so much better than Oracle in the ad business. /s
Dear Mozilla, please stop being google.
Thanks.
Advertising isn’t going anywhere, so investing in/supporting ways to more ethically serve ads without harvesting private data seems like a good thing?
The alternative was supposed to be idle crypto mining
When you get most of your funding from Google, you might start to act like Google.
Looking at it most favorably, if they ever want to not be dependent on Google, they need revenue to replace what they get from Google and like it or not much of the money online comes from advertising. If they can find a way to get that money without being totally invasive on privacy, that’s still better than their current position.
In my view that isn’t favorable. It is perhaps real, but it still doesn’t sit well as we know where it likely leads.
most people are stupid. you and I don’t click on ads, sure, but how do you think google got all their money? you have to cater to the idiots.
Honestly, Mozilla has been peddling adware for a long time now. The writing has been on the wall. It started with putting sponsored links to Amazon on the Firefox home screen, then the shitty Pocket acquisition and the stupid featured stories/recommendations garbage, then the full screen Mozilla VPN ads…Firefox has been adware for a while. Use a fork that removes the bullshit. Switch to LibreWolf.
I think the important thing is consent to use data. If I can control what data I share with them, it isn’t the end of the world. If I choose to not, and it’s honoured, then this is a good thing. I’d prefer this approach funding development to Mozilla not being able to compete.
Mozilla is a far superior company to Google.
they shouldn’t have the data in the first place. constant data leaks have shown us that is the only way to have some privacy.
This is the same kind of framing Google used when they were considered the little guy on your side as opposed to big evil corp.
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