Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising | The Mozilla Blog
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Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for
  • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Advertising isn’t going anywhere, so investing in/supporting ways to more ethically serve ads without harvesting private data seems like a good thing?

    • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      When everyone start using adblockers then it will go away and companies will have to come with new business models. I have been using adblockers since the first adblock was released and I don’t see ads so it’s up to the people. Better invest in/support ways to block ads.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Same, but surely you realize that ads have only gotten worse in the intervening time. I also don’t truly believe that we’ll ever reach critical mass on adblocker users. You’re asking people who don’t care, who don’t use the internet the same way we do, to suddenly care enough to take manual action outside of their knowledgebase amd comfort zone.

        The only way the adblocker user numbers get pumped up to critical mass for a change is if a popular default browser makes adblocking an opt-out default.

        • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          You’re asking people who don’t care, who don’t use the internet the same way we do, to suddenly care enough to take manual action outside of their knowledgebase amd comfort zone

          If they don’t care about ads then they won’t care if those ads are private or not.