• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    No they didn’t.

    They’re still there. Ublock origin is the god-tier adblock, and it’s still there. It’s even a Recommended by Mozilla extension.

    I know people on Lemmy often, for some reason, hate Mozilla more than Google or Microsoft, but Mozilla very much still caters to people who want to block ads, despite the disinformation on Lemmy.

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      14 hours ago

      I think people don’t hate Mozilla, they want them to do better as there are not many options left if you care about privacy. It’d just be nice to not have to pick the lesser evil for once.

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        14 hours ago

        And they are doing better. Making ads private is a very good thing. They’re currently a privacy nightmare.

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          13 hours ago

          They are not making ads private, they are adding another tracking vector. This will not get rid of the other ones already there.

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            10 hours ago

            No they weren’t. Clearly you don’t know how this system works.

            It is impossible to track anybody using this.

            You are getting angry at Mozilla for making something that enables privacy, then getting angry at them again because they aren’t dictators of the web who can control everybody’s and networks.

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      I don’t think Lemmy users hate Firefox. I feel like alot of it is either people who legitimately have whatever needs they have, fulfilled by chrome more than firefox, or…it’s fucking astroturfers/fanboys.

      Edit Addendum: Also, if anything, Lemmy users fucking love Firefox.

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        I don’t mean all Lemmy users. I mean a surprisingly large amount that non-stop hate on Mozilla and Firefox.

        I’ve even seen two users that hate Mozilla/Firefox so much that they wrote about it in their account bio, which I find crazy.

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          Mozilla have made a series of unpopular choices, especially their enabling of telemetry for advertisers that does nothing to benefit users.

          It is no surprise some people are vocally unhappy.

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            Private ads that make user tracking impossible absolutely benefits users, and the ad industry would be a lot less of a cancerous cesspit if it were the norm.

            It’s certainly been unpopular, but that’s more because most people on Lemmy don’t read past ragebait headlines and assume the worst.

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                14 hours ago

                Lmao

                Putting aside for a moment how obviously untrue that is, Mozilla doesn’t even get the data. Not at any point to they have your data for this.

                You’re just showing how clueless you are. You don’t even know how the system works.

                It’s tiring talking about this online, because all the people that are pissed off about it clearly haven’t read past the damn headlines. Educate yourself on how the system works, then form your opinion about it.

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              It’s just another source of telemetry for advertisers and won’t stop any of the existing methods of tracking.

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                14 hours ago

                It’s a private alternative.

                I never said Mozilla was supreme dictator of the web and could force everyone to follow suit.

                “Bad things still exist so Mozilla shouldn’t develop good things” is not a rational take.

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                  5 hours ago

                  The problem is that it isn’t an alternative, it is an additional and it does not benefit users in any way.