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Cake day: June 27th, 2023
  • merde alors@sh.itjust.workstoFirefox@lemmy.ml•Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market"
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    1 day ago

    Advertising will not improve unless we address the underlying data sharing issues, and solve for the economic incentives that rely on that data.

    thanks to Mozilla for assuming the responsibility of improving advertising

    We can’t just ignore online advertising — it’s a major driver of how the internet works and is funded. We need to stare it straight in the eyes and try to fix it. For those reasons, Mozilla has become more active in online advertising over the past few years. - MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA source

    if we stay with that metaphor of “We need to stare it straight in the eyes and try to fix it”, it’s not difficult to imagine Mark and Mozilla being swallowed by the monster he’s “staring straight in the eyes” :/

    i hope they can filter the shit Mozilla will include in Firefox from mull and mullvad

  • merde alors@sh.itjust.workstoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•How good you feel good about your privacy using apps such as Signal?
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    14 days ago

    indeed they are ☞ President of @signalapp : https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563865413484025

    PSA: We’ve received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you’re talking to.

    In Signal, push notifications simply act as a ping that tells the app to wake up. They don’t reveal who sent the message or who is calling (not to Apple, Google, or anyone). Notifications are processed entirely on your device. This is different from many other apps.

    What’s the background here? Currently, in order to enable push notifications on the dominant mobile operating systems (iOS and Android) those building and maintaining apps like Signal need to use services offered by Apple and Google.

    Apple simply doesn’t let you do it another way. And Google, well you could (and we’ve tried), but the cost to battery life is devastating for performance, rendering this a false option if you want to build a usable, practical, dependable app for people all over the world.*

    So, while we do not love Big Tech choke points and the control that a handful of companies wield over the tech ecosystem, we do everything we can to ensure that in spite of this dynamic, if you use Signal your privacy is preserved.

    *(Note, if you are among the small number of people that run alt Android-based operating systems that don’t include Google libraries, we implement the battery-destroying push option, and hope you have ways to navigate.)