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Yeaaaah, no thank you. > while keeping your privacy in mind. Doesn't mean it's maintained with reasonable assurance. Who is even asking for these features? T
by spicybright 5y ago
Yeaaaah, no thank you.
> while keeping your privacy in mind.
Doesn't mean it's maintained with reasonable assurance.
Who is even asking for these features? The majority of firefox users I know are very privacy conscious. Is a little address bar feature really going to attract more people to use firefox?
- nicce 5y agoAds and privacy just do not belong and cannot be together. Why…
- tremon 5y agoOf course they go can together. Ads can be coupled with the content rather than the user, as they are in print, on the radio and on TV. What is incompatible with privacy is user stalking -- i.e. surveillance in the name of monitoring/improving ad effectiveness.
- freediver 5y agoI'd argue that this works only because there is a hard stop. A newspaper can not track you even if it wanted to. On the web, contextual ads is where everyone begins as they "don't want to be evil". But ad monetized business models can make more money only in two ways - more users or more ads per user. Once you exhaust the first option for growth, the businesses inevitably pursue the second option because the web as a platform allows them to do that easily with additional tracking and data monetization, unlike with newspapers or radio. That makes this a 'soft' stop and the temptation has been proven too hard to resist for many, analogue to putting a jar of cookies in front of a child and asking them not to touch it. It would be much 'healthier' if a business model itself was not designed in a way that puts it potentially onto a trajectory to collide with user's privacy at some point in time.
- nicce 5y agoExactly this. Public ad companies with shareholders cannot keep growing if their userbase stays as constant value and no other methods are used. And grow they must.