Says the organization which doesn't accept personal donations to fund Mozilla, and which doesn't seek government grants, like 'digital sovereignty' grants the E

Says the organization which doesn't accept personal donations to fund Mozilla, and which doesn't seek government grants, like 'digital sovereignty' grants the EU might give to keep its citizens out of Sauron's dark eye. You should be able to connect to your government's websites without being required to use a browser which is deliberately built to engage in advertising and which tracks you without real and effective informed consent. Mozilla is saying that user-tracking is the only viable advertising model for any future web, and that even laws mandating only contextual advertising, with actual informed consent for anything else, is not something to consider. I wanted to be able to tell my local schools to install Firefox instead of Chrome, because otherwise you are teaching the kids to depend and trust in Google. I cannot do that now, because I don't now trust in Firefox, which means placing my trust in one of the Firefox forks - and there's no way I can convince the schools to do that. > And we’ll continue to explore ways to add advertiser value while respecting user privacy That's exactly the chicanery I've come to expect from Firefox. I'm okay with advertisers which don't build up a tracking profile. For the ones that do - fuck them and drain their bank accounts.