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by zingplex 1402 days ago
Could they though? If Firefox started having giant ad images on the new tab page, sending ad notifications and pushing crypto scams, the users would be outraged.
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But they aren't outraged by collaboration agreements with the largest privacy invaders on the planet?

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2022/02/mozilla-partners-wi...

Building on that [1]

[1] https://www.techtimes.com/articles/271832/20220214/mozilla-m...

But that leads to [2]

[2] https://www.prweek.com/article/1740679/mozilla-meta-collabor...

And that "privacy-preserving attribution" thing is all over the googles.

Excuse my French as a Firefox user, but what the fuck?
Firefox already shows giant ads [1]

I don't think BAT is a scam, but Brave hasn't done the best with it. Regardless, Mozilla previously pushed for crypto [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30665493

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/mozilla/status/147695103063826022...