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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Have you used the Internet before? Or used it without a clue how services are usually paid for? You sound a bit clueless. The day they do that, a lot of websites stop working and nagging the user to turn off adblock, which I see all the time (as an advanced user who expects it). If I was a normie who didn't understand this it might be quite confusing. This is obviously the reason basically no mainstream browser has done this or would do it.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh come on now everyone knows what an adblocker is. It's right in the goddamn name: ad blocker, the thing that blocks ads.

    Even if they don't know how to disable it they can just google it. And if they lack the skill to do that too, they couldn't have succeeded installing Firefox in the first place.

    Stop trying to justify clearly unethical decisions because you used to like the entity who made the decision

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  • [+] -16 points 2 years ago* (6 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Always love people who think you support bad things if you point them out.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I give zero fucks about "the way things are" or how they "have to work", that's propaganda to support inaction. I've lived my whole life blocking ads and giving the finger to advertisers, and telling me that ads make the world go round and that's just the way it is regardless of personal opinion on the matter doesn't jive well with me. Ads provide nothing useful to society, and fall in the same category as predatory CEOs and anticonsumer practices that generate a lot of revenue, but make the world over all a worse place to live. It's not something to tolerate and put up with as a "necessary evil", it's something to target and eliminate.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Ads provide nothing useful to society

    An easy revenue stream for independent, free website hosters? Without this we wouldn't have free versions of Cookie Clicker, Universal Paperclips, A Dark Room, etc..

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