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.
I will never ever accept any ad technology except maybe
<a href="company_url"><img src="funny_picture.gif"></a>Would you look at that, privacy preserving advertisement!
Let’s take it one step further and go really crazy with a/b testing
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