• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Private ads that make user tracking impossible absolutely benefits users, and the ad industry would be a lot less of a cancerous cesspit if it were the norm.

    It’s certainly been unpopular, but that’s more because most people on Lemmy don’t read past ragebait headlines and assume the worst.

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      4 days ago

      It’s just another source of telemetry for advertisers and won’t stop any of the existing methods of tracking.

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        3 days ago

        It’s a private alternative.

        I never said Mozilla was supreme dictator of the web and could force everyone to follow suit.

        “Bad things still exist so Mozilla shouldn’t develop good things” is not a rational take.

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          3 days ago

          The problem is that it isn’t an alternative, it is an additional and it does not benefit users in any way.

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            2 days ago

            It is an alternative, and if it became more common in the industry it would be one of the best things to happen for user privacy in decades.