The current Mozilla seems to believe that there is "good" advertising and "bad" advertising, and that furthermore there is "good" ad tracking/ad surveillance and "bad" ad tracking/ad surveillance, and all they have to do is do a lot of the "good" advertising and "good" surveillance and somehow this will cause there to be less of the "bad" advertising and surveillance. As if there is a limit on how much advertising it is possible to fit in the world.
Hubert Figuière
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •mcc
in reply to mcc • • •They are wrong, and obviously wrong, on nearly every count here.
Advertising is simply bad.
The thing that makes their "good" advertising supposedly "good" is some very wonky set of very mathematical properties about the exact way in which they violate our privacy. As if when advertising makes our life worse we are doing statistics on it, to decide if our unhappiness is morally pure.
And when you add Mozilla's advertising to the existing "bad" advertising, all you get is more advertising.
Don Marti
in reply to mcc • • •good point. I am mainly disappointed that management didn't read their own list archives—did Internet freedom people compromise with any of the other possible dystopia timelines?
Clipper Chip (US government) no, we have e2e encryption now
Codec patent cartel (huge IT companies) no, we have free media formats
DRM mandate "Fritz Chip" (US government + big media) no, we dodged this one too
Can't beat this stuff with compromises that leave supporters feeling creeped out
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Don Marti • • •@dmarti About "free media formats" there a few things they botched, self inflicted.
1. EME to allow DRM. Not an uptick into the market share.
2. some initiative didn't work with Firefox without proprietary codec because one part of the company had to clue (won't give the name of the initiative)