[SebastianKra]

My perfect world would have a law against advertising in general. If someone's paying you to say something, it's a conflict of interest and illegal.

Hopefully, the vacuum of people needing to know things would result in better independent Product reviews.

And the vacuum of not spending 30% of your company budget on advertising would hopefully lead to sinking prices and people being more willing to spend on things that were previously funded by advertising.

[_heimdall]

> If someone's paying you to say something, it's a conflict of interest and illegal.

That already misses a huge problem though, I don't pay Mozilla for Firefox and I don't pay most online sites and services that gobble up my data and sell it off.

[robin_reala]

Mozilla has never given us a choice to pay for Firefox.

[_heimdall]

Sure, but I don't think that really changes anything here. The idea of a law that bans advertising when the customer pays you would miss a huge portion of advertising and data collection including Firefox.

[nemomarx]

I read their post as banning it when the advertiser pays anyone else?

[_heimdall]

I may have just misread it, but how would that work? When would an advertiser not be paying anyone else?

[SebastianKra]

That's what my third paragraph was for.

[_heimdall]

Is the concern you want fixed only that paid products still collect and sell data?

I may have misunderstood you, but my read on the third paragraph was mainly that Firefox, in this case, could still have a free browser that collects and sells data. That rule would just add one more fsctor for them to consider if they ever want a paid browser, they both need a viable market and be willing to give up the option to sell data.