Mozilla is advertising company

DoctorG

Mozilla is a advertising company now with ""privacy""

Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for the advertising industry by ensuring user privacy

I guess they will later be able to show/inject ads which can not be filtered.

Catweazle

This is sure to cause a lot of joy among the FOSS FF Fanboys. (preparing for new users in Vivaldi)

DoctorG

@DoctorG "We are so private"

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Well, A "we process all data in USA" ad company. That is such we all will trust in, do we?

luetage

@DoctorG Mozilla’s strategic acquisitions are no laughing matter. They buy only shit.

DoctorG

I think, they have to get more financial background by ads to in invest in their upcoming browser pollution called MozAI.

DoctorG

@luetage Yes, Moz bought a typical we-do-innovation-with-blah-blah-company.

Catweazle

@DoctorG, worth to add it to this site

RiveDroite

Yikes...this isn't a good look Mozilla.

Thot

Oh no, not again, not again a new browser! Just take one, and that’s Vivaldi!

Thot

@DoctorG said in Mozilla is advertising company:

I think, they have to get more financial background by ads to in invest in their upcoming browser pollution called MozAI.

<irony_on> Everybody knows that security and privacy can only be achieved through privacy-friendly digital advertising! :-p <irony_off>

Sorry, Site in German:
Mozilla kauft Anonym …

Catweazle

@Thot, for US companies privacy is generally an foreignism which they don't know the meaning. You can look in their PP, they all start "Your privacy is very important to us", which in clear text means that your private data is important to them as they make money from it.

More, seeing investors of the new company:

Griffin, a software, social media, and Web3 gaming investment firm
Norwest, a business and healthcare investment firm
David Fischer, former CRO of Facebook
Julius Genachowski, former FCC chairman and board member of MasterCard
Jonah Goodhart, board member of Right Media, an ad company bought by Yahoo
Jon Leibowitz, former FTC chairman and National Consumers League board member
Eric Roza, founder and CEO of Datalogix (Oracle Advertising)
Eric Seufert, a programmer and marketing analystMore seeing

Thot

@Catweazle said in Mozilla is advertising company:

for US companies privacy is generally an foreignism which they don't know the meaning.

Digital Feudalism! Whereas the advertising industry has the reins in power.

Stardust

privacy-preserving

I think we heard this term before?

Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives

From creators of Facebook

We urgently need a third engine (and browser) because we out of options soon, one Ad Corporation controlling chromium, and now we have another Ad Corporation that has total control over Firefox - the last browser that is not based on chromium.

Mozilla, how could you do this to us!?

Catweazle

@Stardust, there ares still WebKit, well....better no, Goana and Qt, but they are also forks of Gecko and Chromium. Better staying with Chromium and making the best of it, no other way arround. Or talking with KDE to get back to the roots, forking their Konqueror browser with KHtml.

NetscapeNavigator

Time to switch to Vivaldi Browser, full-time.

I miss the days of Netscape Navigator, and jumped over to Phoenix, which later became Fire Bird, which ultimately became Firefox. It is a sad day, indeed, but at least there is an alternative, Vivaldi.

RiveDroite

@NetscapeNavigator welcome!

Dancer18

@luetage said in Mozilla is advertising company:

They buy only shit

Buy or sell?