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The CTO of FB is an ex-Mozillian. There are quite a few ex-Mozillians here, including myself. Despite Mozilla's public posture that FB is enemy #1, the internal

• blub 6y ago
  They'll probably work with the same customers too, except instead of helping them fight Facebook tracking they will help Facebook track them better.
• AshamedCaptain 6y ago
  Enemy #1? I hear more about Facebook in the Firefox default startpage than _everywhere else I look_. Today, in fact, there is a huge pseudo-advertisiment (at least in fr_FR) about "how I should not feel guilty about browsing Facebook [through Firefox]" , which almost made me puke. As a person who doesn't care about Facebook whatsoever, I didn't get the impression that FB was enemy #1, but rather I assumed FB was paying them money like Google is... I can actually see FB being happy to just give money away to Mozilla, just to influence them away from Google.
  • MikusR 6y ago
    That full page ad was advertising the Mozilla made Facebook container. Based on absence of Mozilla made Google container, I think that ad was paid by Google.
  • sciurus 6y ago
    I believe what you saw was a promotion of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... That extension is described as: "Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook."
• LunaSea 6y ago
  What about the ethics culture?