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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" (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that might be the best case scenario. Have ad blocking but add in some technical hurdles so that not enough people do it for it to be worth stamping out.

Though that makes me wonder if this will be effective at all because the technical hurdle to get Mozilla's new ad system is only slightly less than the technical hurdle to install ublock origin. I'm guessing advertisers will either ignore it entirely and continue with what they are doing (because the data means profit for them) or maybe put some portion of their bandwidth towards it while continuing to do what they are doing with other providers.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's really hard to tell how Mozilla is acting doing because 99.99% of the posts/comments on Lemmy/Reddit is just FUD. I'm sire it skews people's perception.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, Lemmy isn't getting the same kind of propaganda as other social media, but it does appear to be present here on some topics.

Like normal conservative propaganda gets drowned out since the userbase has a large portion of people who are here because we're tired of corporate bullshit.

But it means we're probably more susceptible to propaganda that accuses corporations of corporate bullshit, whether the accusation has merit or not.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But it means we’re probably more susceptible to propaganda that accuses corporations of corporate bullshit, whether the accusation has merit or not.

Exactly. It's a different variation. I think the Mozilla stuff is more a sleepwalking echo chamber than an intentional campaign, but at a certain point the difference doesn't matter.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't be surprised at it being a combination of both. It's easy to be paranoid about this stuff because corporations have shown again and again that trusting them is a mistake, but Google and MS (plus many others like advertisers) do have a financial incentive to reduce trust in Mozilla so people go back to using their options and seeing those ads.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 0 points 1 month ago

Yea that's a really good way to put it!