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Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market" (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] ramblingsteve 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I honestly never expected the final death blow for Firefox to come from Mozilla.

[–] barnaclebutt 10 points 1 month ago

Is this a response to the fact that they may not get paid for having Google as their default search engine? If so, I worry about a bunch of Linux distributions. It's ironic that a company's toxic virtual monopoly was paying for so much open software.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Eh, they've been speedrunning this for years, this is just the most efficient way to get to the end goal of complete ruin.

I have a few alternative ideas, but I honestly don't think they're interested in hearing them.

[–] PlantDadManGuy 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe they've been infiltrated by bad actors from Google, parading around as pro-privacy frauds.

[–] ramblingsteve 7 points 1 month ago

I hope so. I hope there could be a future where Mozilla is purged of these people and returned to being just a browser. Not everything has to be a "platform" with a business model for MBA's to feast on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Mozilla's PPA was developed in collaboration with Facebook. While we don't usually think of that company as advertisement centric, they are, just moreso within their own walled garden of a social network.

parading around as pro-privacy frauds.

Here's a frighteningly accurate prediction from The Register, written back in January:

...Baker notes: "We need to be faster in prototyping, launching, learning, and iterating ... This requires rich data, and so we will be moving in that direction, but in a very Mozilla way."

Surely not slurping telemetry?

According to the report, the "Mozilla way" is all about privacy, encryption, and keeping customer data safe. Hopefully, it will also be about innovation rather than scattering AI fairy dust over its product line.