• Cypher@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months ago

      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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          3 months ago

          Lmao

          Putting aside for a moment how obviously untrue that is, Mozilla doesn’t even get the data.

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

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        3 months ago

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

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          3 months 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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            3 months ago

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