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“The internet has become a massive web of surveillance:” Firefox defends its decision (cybernews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ravnswood to c/firefox

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[–] teft 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Digital advertising is not going away

My pihole and ublock origin say otherwise.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Some sites don't work with ad blockers enabled. Yes, one can avoid those as much as possible, but some small maintainer of neat online services (no, not Google, Meta, MS, ...) also need their bills payed. So ads without tracking, i.e. collection of personal data, imho are a toad to swallow.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some sites don't work with ad blockers enabled.

Some foods taste bad. One simply eats different foods.

some small maintainer of neat online services (no, not Google, Meta, MS, ...) also need their bills payed.

If they can't afford to host it at no cost to the user then they should charge for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If they can't afford to host it at no cost to the user then they should charge for it.

That's a lot more complex than displaying some ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's also more respectful to users and doesn't create perverse incentives or invite third party ad servers to give their customers malware.