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Mozilla’s system only measures the success rate of ads—it doesn’t help companies target those ads—and it’s less susceptible to abuse, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany@flipboard.com. “It’s much more privacy-preserving than Google’s version of the same feature.”

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Privacy experts say the new toggle is mostly harmless, but Firefox users saw it as a betrayal.

“They made this technology for advertisers, specifically,” says Jonah Aragon, founder of the Privacy Guides website. “There’s no direct benefit to the user in creating this. It’s software that only serves a party other than the user.”

  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Typical. You post a reasonable response and get a bunch of ad-pilled shit takes:

    “But will you eat shit if I put a little chocolate on it?”

    “If you don’t eat shit, you don’t deserve to interact with the internet eat.”

    “Maybe if you pay them a little money, they’ll stop trying to serve you shit?”

    Advertisers contribute nothing of value to our society and contribute little of value to even the companies they serve. Let them burn. Every action they take to “serve” me ads will be met with an equal counteraction.

    We deserve to live a life without being constantly bombarded with messages telling us to buy, buy, buy! This significantly decreases our quality of life and is endemic within our entire society. What the hell are all of you who defend advertisers thinking?

    Give them an inch and they will take a mile. It definitely won’t be the first time.