i don't wanna see another ad on the web in my life, so i'll just keep on using ublock.

I said this in the other thread but it bears repeating.

Data-driven marketing and privacy are diametrically opposed.

If I want to advertise to pregnant teenagers looking at bus tickets, even if I have something helpful to say, that is a huge privacy violation to those people. And even if you say, I can't see who's being advertised to, I can see who clicks on the ads, even accidentally. Now I know a whole lot about them

I am a little disgusted by this because now both major browser engines are being developed by an advertising company, creating more incentives for future web technologies that strengthen tracking and undermine ad blocking.

From what I understand, this is an anonymized targeted ad company. In other words, ads are still targeted to the individual user, it is just harder for the advertiser to track (or profile) an individual user. Are there any companies still doing untargeted ads, ads where the advertiser might pick what site their ad goes on but cannot target a specific user demographic?

Stolen from r*ddit, this is what the option looks like in the config (already in beta/dev channel)

also stolen from r*ddit: "Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives Brad Smallwood and Graham Mudd."

I wonder if the process is open source or we just take their word that it's privacy preserving. Anyway, privacy is not the only problem with online advertising, so I'm not going to give up adblocking any time soon.

Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives [...]. The company was backed by [various venture capital corporations and multiple] strategic individual investors.

Great

I love how Mozilla seems to be trying so hard to kill itself. You don't see Google marketing Chrome as the browser that serves you ads and sends back telemetry.

Advertising can't be privacy preserving. What gives advertisement value is the fact that it's targeted.

for anybody that wants to disable it, go to the settings and search for "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement"

(or through the dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled flag in about:config)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

Bollocks

This is why i am not giving another penny to Mozilla ever again

JS compatible browsers that actually respect your privacy:

• qutebrowser
• luakit
• badwolf
• falkon

Mozilla is not your friend, and they're not saving the web from Google

Terrible news

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