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>they became an ad company

???



- "...But, for right now on the internet of today, a big part of the answer is online advertising. We started engaging in this space because the way the industry works today is fundamentally broken. It doesn’t put people first, it’s not privacy-respecting, and it’s increasingly anti-competitive. There have to be better options. Mozilla can play a key role in creating these better options not just by advocating for them, but also by actually building them..."

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/digital-advertising-priv...

- "...We’ve been collaborating with Meta on this, because any successful mechanism will need to be actually useful to advertisers, and designing something that Mozilla and Meta are simultaneously happy with is a good indicator we’ve hit the mark..."

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_abo...

Etc. (You have to read these things *carefully*, because, the way Mozilla corpos write press, they obfuscate words to the point you can barely make out the sense from the noise).


Maybe this is a reference to:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/advertising/


Mozilla changed their goals over the last 5 years pretty drastically in an effort to chase revenue. It's a failing strategy assuming you want go remain a privacy focused organization.




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