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Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Surveillance advertisement was already around.

Social Media platforms simply capitalized on it.

And users sucked it up for "convenience".

Today I ended up on the wrong side of the Google not algorithm in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I see that as a positive.

Oh, you mean real cookies...

Looking to move on from Unraid, need suggestions. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Have you solved the issues Syncthing has with Android? Seems Android v9 and later networking blocks the LAN access for finding local relays. Even manually configuring relay IPs in Syncthing doesn't resolve the issue.

Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck ads.

You're lying to yourself if you think ads will ever be delivered without tracking.

This whole "anonymization" nonsense is a lie. It's been shown, repeatedly, that data can be de-anonymised, especially data that's not exactly narrowly collected.

Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hahaha, because data can never be de-anonymised, right?

Oh, yea, that's repeatedly been show to not be true.

Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't we go through all this like a month ago?

Why are people still excusing Mozilla for this?

collaborators, it’s time to review the recommendation of Firefox as a good browser option… in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

Fuck advertisers at this point.

Maybe in 1999 I was still with you, but they've continually shown, not just disregard for out concerns, but a flat out "fuck you" malicious adversarialism.

So fuck all advertisers at this point. Every fucking last one of them.

I will block them every way I can. I will poison their tracking. I will do everything I can to fuck with them.

Don't be an apologist for their bullshit.

And if you bring up the "well websites will cost you then". That's a whole lotta not my problem. If you want to host a server, that's your problem how to pay for it.

I currently pay for my internet, and you want me to subsidize your ads by paying my ISP to deliver those ads.

I also pay for my own VPS, and related services, for stuff I want to do, such as provide some services to family and friends. Should I serve ads to them to subsidize my server costs?