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Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

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First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?

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sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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I’m not planning to move anywhere tbh.

I do. If they go through with it than they’re not much better than Google.

If they don’t have enough money maybe they could start with cutting the CEO’s pay.

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🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
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Likening this to the evils of google is such a wildly dishonest take lmao

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sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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Why? Do you really think Google started out evil, and not step by step by implementing “improvements” similar to this one?

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Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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On the contrary, it’s the only comparison you can make, since they are literally the only options.

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unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de
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already

How considering to show ads and allow to opt out is worse that google? Have you watch Youtube?

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Vilian@lemmy.ca
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this need to start from inside the company, lile the employers timing a walkout of something, other than that everything gonna stay the same

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Ephera@lemmy.ml
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I haven’t read through the issue, but so far all of Mozilla’s endeavours into ads have been stellar privacy-wise.

And their CEO stepped back a few weeks ago. It’s well possible that the intermediary/new CEO won’t get as much payment, because losing them to a competitor will not hurt as badly.

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