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LAURA CHAMBERS, CEO, MOZILLA CORPORATION As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising. Our hypothesis is that we n

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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.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 month ago

    I agree with you, I think there might have been a misunderstanding.

    Well you said:

    but that’s the best that can be done on chrome

    that’s true. what I wanted to mean is that I don’t think gorhill really wants to develop that addon (uBO Lite), as I can imagine he’s fed up with the limitations and how little he can do there. I don’t know he’s reason for developing it, though. Maybe as an experiment on what it could still accomplish.

    And I think the best use of such a plugin is actually to use it on Firefox. Since Firefox (or Firefox forks) still support Manifest v2.

    I’m a little confused here. we don’t need that plugin on Firefox, because we have the full capability version.

    SO please do not use Google Chrome

    I totally agree. That would be a huge downgrade. Not looking back, only forward, for FF forks and whatever the future may bring us.

    • melroy
      1•1 month ago

      I personally switched to Floorp on my desktop/laptop systems. And Waterfox on mobile (Android).