Digital advertising is not going away
My pihole and ublock origin say otherwise.
Some sites don’t work with ad blockers enabled. Yes, one can avoid those as much as possible, but some small maintainer of neat online services (no, not Google, Meta, MS, …) also need their bills payed. So ads without tracking, i.e. collection of personal data, imho are a toad to swallow.
Some sites don’t work with ad blockers enabled.
Some foods taste bad. One simply eats different foods.
some small maintainer of neat online services (no, not Google, Meta, MS, …) also need their bills payed.
If they can’t afford to host it at no cost to the user then they should charge for it.
If they can’t afford to host it at no cost to the user then they should charge for it.
That’s a lot more complex than displaying some ads.
It’s also more respectful to users and doesn’t create perverse incentives or invite third party ad servers to give their customers malware.
“Whatever opinion you may have of advertising as an economic model, it’s a powerful industry that’s not going to pack up and go away,” Holley said." … “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,” Holley believes.
Even if this is true, for Mozilla to take a position of capitulating to the ad companies and working with likes of meta to find what works for them is a sad day in the history of Mozilla. They need a new CEO who believes in a better internet. Until then, Firefox users might as well take the same position and move to a chromium based browser, where at least we get the speed and compatibility with web standards dictated by Google, if data mining and tracking is the only future left. What a sad state of affairs this is.
