Today I'm unveiling (again) my long-held position that any and all advertising on my PC is a potential security threat and will be dealt with accordingly.
I will also unveil (again) my co-opted position on marketing, courtesy of Bill Hicks (skip to 1:30).
"we have really listened this time" yeah, no
They didn't actually say that fyi, OP added it.
Why do they continue to want to shove ads down their users throat? I use FF so uBlock Origin works and can block everything that annoys me...
Why do they continue to want to shove ads down their users throat?
Because the Google gravy train is going away.
I'm happy to unveil that ive fully moved off FF and onto various forks of it.
Can you imagine how great software would be if we had UBI? No one would need advertising money to stay viable, and every developer could just make whatever they wanted or what felt important to them.
Look it's Pocket 2.0. More stuff you have to turn off in about:config. Great!
Like all the other times, they haven't listened.
After thinking about it I think this has actually nothing to do with Firefox (yet), but with the ad platform they bought. Might absolutely end up in Firefox in some way, but this blog post is not about that...
Confidential computing solution. That sounds an awful lot like an oxymoron.
Well, they do promise it's secure! Which means... Nothing, absolutely nothing in terms of privacy.
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