"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
  • MonkderDritte@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago
    • It’s an attempt to replace cross site tracking methods, which are terrible

    Doesn’t work with total cookie protection anyway.

    • Lodra@programming.devEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      Exactly. It sounds like Mozilla is trying to protect those that aren’t willing or able to protect themselves. It’s a noble reason to do just a little bit of evil. This is roughly the source of my mixed feelings on the subject.