Yea, yea.
Then why didn't you announce it with fanfare, instead of saying nothing and enabling it automatically?
What is it the anti-encryption crowd say again? "If you've got nothing to hide..."
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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Because Mozilla is bad a communication, often.
While this is true, this feature is still a good one to have enabled.
Its good to have other people who have enabled it. As long as their is no way the current trackers can detect ive disabled it.
It doesn't share information about you in the first place, and nothing happens at all if you block ads.
Digital advertising is not going away
My pihole and ublock origin say otherwise.
Some sites don't work with ad blockers enabled. Yes, one can avoid those as much as possible, but some small maintainer of neat online services (no, not Google, Meta, MS, ...) also need their bills payed. So ads without tracking, i.e. collection of personal data, imho are a toad to swallow.
Some sites don't work with ad blockers enabled.
Some foods taste bad. One simply eats different foods.
some small maintainer of neat online services (no, not Google, Meta, MS, ...) also need their bills payed.
If they can't afford to host it at no cost to the user then they should charge for it.
If they can't afford to host it at no cost to the user then they should charge for it.
That's a lot more complex than displaying some ads.
It's also more respectful to users and doesn't create perverse incentives or invite third party ad servers to give their customers malware.