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LAURA CHAMBERS, CEO, MOZILLA CORPORATION As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising. Our hypothesis is that we n

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23894598

Despite its emphasis on protecting privacy, Mozilla is moving towards integrating ads, backed by new infrastructure from their acquisition of Anonym. They claim this will maintain a balance between user control and online ad economics, using privacy-preserving tech. However, this shift appears to contradict Mozilla’s earlier stance of protecting users from invasive advertising practices, and it signals a change in their priorities.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    82·
    3 months ago

    Hahaha, because data can never be de-anonymised, right?

    Oh, yea, that’s repeatedly been show to not be true.

    • parpol@programming.dev
      11·
      3 months ago

      That depends entirely on what kind of data is stored and how often a new unique ID is created, and that’s something users can seize control over.