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Also not what I said.
Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023.
Mozilla became an advertising company in June, 2024.
Isn't it curious that they've suddenly become much less outspoken about ad blocking after 2022?
Also not what I said.
Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023
(Assuming this is about Pocket) Is it too much to expect from you to know the difference between aggregated non-PII data vs PII data?
It's about their FakeSpot subsidiary.
It’s about their FakeSpot subsidiary.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/review-checker-review-quality#w_protect-your-privacy
I wasn't thinking about that one, although it is hilarious Mozilla thinks it can claim it isn't scraping private data by using a business collaborator as an intermediary.