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- technology@beehaw.org
- google@lemmy.world
Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren’t kept
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The advertising company’s web browser doesn’t allow you to block its advertising? Color me shocked!
Problem without solution.
Chromium by Google, Safari by Apple, Firefox by Mozilla. All are developed by companies that are part of advertising industry.
Mozilla is not part of the advertising industry…
As if these are all equally deep in advertising with the same motivations and history
It’s not a comparison of how deep each of them are. It’s simple fact that they all are. Even defunct one like Internet Explorer or Edge were part of the same industry. It’s a pattern, not a coincidence.
Mozilla making the judgment that it may be more effective to attempt to push advertising tech towards more privacy friendly technology (i don’t agree with them but I can understand the thought process) and Google being an evil advertising empire are not even remotely the same thing.
While you’re technically correct, this false equivalence you’re trying to draw is just absurd.
They all are NOT. Mozilla is not part of “the advertising industry”. Mozilla is a nonprofit organization which relies on funding from others, and occasionally puts advertising in their product to keep the lights on, they are not, primarily, an advertising organization.
The solution, is quite literally, use Mozilla Firefox.
Ignoring the fact they are literally part of the industry.
- https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_betting_privacy/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/
They also rely on that industry for keeping their lights on.
Approximately 85% and 81% of Mozilla’s revenues from customers with contracts were derived from one customer for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Receivables from that one customer represented 70% and 64% of the December 31, 2023 and 2022 outstanding receivables, respectively.
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-short-1209.pdf
That customer is Google making Google search the default on Firefox.
They also keep hiring useless venture capital CEOs and keep increasing their pay, while firing workers at the same time.
- 2020 - 2,689,800 - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-2020-form-990.pdf
- 2021 - 5,591,406 - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990-ty21-public-disclosure.pdf
- 2022 - 6,903,089 - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990-ty22-public-disclosure.pdf
- https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/
Nobody is telling you to stop using Firefox, but pretending that Mozilla is some kind of savior saint is just false.
You don’t say…I’m shocked I say, shocked… well not that shocked.
I think the most interesting part of that whole thing was the people at AdGuard and Privacy Badger apparently believing the advertising company wasn’t going to hurt them.
Everything still works in Firefox.
You can just leave.
Anybody else read this as “Google’s Chrome Extension, being slow, reforms anger developers” and have waaay too many questions before finally working it out?
No? Just me? I’ll just go over here then.
