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Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising
(blog.mozilla.org)
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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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I love how Mozilla seems to be trying so hard to kill itself. You don't see Google marketing Chrome as the browser that serves you ads and sends back telemetry.
Not the first time Mozilla has done something like this. In 2017, Mozilla stealthily installed a tracking and advertising plugin called Cliqz on a small number of German user's computers, which provided users with targeted ads, with very similar language to what Mozilla is currently trying to incorporate with Anonym.
Fun fact: Cliqz also developed a search engine, which later got purchased by Brave and renamed Brave Search.