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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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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.