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This is very interesting. We are seeing a shift of browsers from being neutral tools to actively influencing the content that users see. * Firefox about:newtab
by est31 8y ago
This is very interesting. We are seeing a shift of browsers from being neutral tools to actively influencing the content that users see.
* Firefox about:newtab pocket links
* Brave browser replacing ads
* Edge shipping NewsGuard
With this content curation going on, will there be one day a Fox news browser and a CNN browser?
- tracker1 8y agos/(Fox News|CNN) browser/$1 app/
- annadane 8y agoI wouldn't include Firefox in this just yet, a lot of people still trust Mozilla (who nevertheless still have to be very careful not to lose that trust)
- est31 8y agoMy point wasn't about trusting or not trusting. It was about browsers adding/influencing content as a default setting, and this being a new thing. I don't know whether this is bad or good in general.
- fxfan 8y agoCall me when they actually start caring about end users and ship ublock origin by default and stop their ad 'experiments'. And I am a Firefox user. Since 2006. But because they are the least bad browser (by far). Not because they are good.
- ilaksh 8y agoThe thing that people don't realize is that Fox and CNN are two sides of the same coin. Both are controlled by the establishment when it comes to certain lines. For example, reporting about war on those channels is war propaganda not real information. What you are going to have is a 'normal' internet with government-controlled and sanctioned information on one hand. Then the real 'free' internet will run on an entirely different set of distributed technologies. China is the leader in controlling media and the real inspiration for technologies like NewsGuard.