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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There are people that use Firefox who also get served ads?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Literally every browser has this option, and it gives users a choice. If you use an ad blocker, it has this option as well and has had it for several years now.

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[–] shadycomposer 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What’s the behavior before this option was added? Would websites track you or not?

[–] Contravariant 3 points 5 months ago

They definitely didn't just stop tracking you because this option exists.

[–] devilish666 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So.... finally Mozilla has slowly but surely going into the dark side huh...
I'm not surprised anymore, they even had telemetry code inside android apps from waaay back then (although seems for debugging purpose)

In the end I'm not justify all company bc they need money for survive & exist, although i don't like the way they do it

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

Mozilla has been bad actors since at least 2017, they implemented a piece of malware called Cliqz on a small number of German user's installs that recommends various services based on browser history (aka tracking and advertising); so I'd hardly call this a new development, or Mozilla "just now" falling to the dark side (and that's not even mentioning pocket and DoH to cloudflare, which are still enabled by default).

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