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I had a low expectations from Mozilla, but holy shit. (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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At that stage they are not hiding that they are a ads and AI company anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm all for shitting on bad decisions by mozilla but pretty sure there has been zero mention of ads in the actual browser itself. Do you have proof?

Edit: edited because my original wording was a bit aggressive.

[–] cm0002 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We’re growing the Mozilla Ads product team, passionate about display advertising in Mozilla products that is privacy-respecting and values-aligned. You will be one of the lead engineers that will craft, build, and be responsible for the core systems, both front-end and back-end, that support advertising in clients (Firefox, MDN, Pocket, Fakespot, etc). You and your team will be the domain guides when it comes to advertising, providing direction and shepherding to various product teams across Mozilla.

Ofc some reading between the lines is needed, they're not going to just blatantly say something they know will be incredibly unpopular this early.

And like I said, its just another on a pile of mounting evidence of a year of bad decisions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's definitely concerning the way it's going. I'll say that much. I really hope that doesn't happen.