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   Ayo (ayo@lonely.town)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 18:41:24 JST Ayo

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   • Aloïs Cochard

   @alois
   Probably no new arguments for you here, but NOYB has summarized it best for me: https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature

   Tracking and advertising are orthogonal, you can have the latter without the former. The main challenge is that context-based ads (as opposed to tracking-based ads) don't work very well for websites that don't have much relevant context, such as news sites. I'd argue that news sites should either be subscription-based or public funded. The latter already happens to some extend in the EU.

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     Aloïs Cochard (alois@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 18:41:27 JST Aloïs Cochard

     • rellik moo
     • millennial falcon
     • TeflonTrout :bc: he/him
     • MiloWinterBurn

     I do believe many folks are just exaggerating the facts about the current browsers situation without actually trying to understand what #Mozilla is doing.

     Also I'm pretty sure those same folks where not even using Mozilla Firefox in the first place!

     Let's stop the abstract drama and maybe we can talk about facts?

     I do believe in differential privacy (https://blog.cloudflare.com/have-your-data-and-hide-it-too-an-introduction-to-differential-privacy/), and from what I can see it is being implemented correctly by Mozilla.

     If we don't offer a privacy preserving alternative to what is currently available for the marketing industry, we will never solve the problem ... because we will never live in a world without ads, unless you decide to replace entirely the current economic system.

     Please let me know your thoughts, why you think I'm just plain wrong or even tell me how wrong I am about the economic system or differential privacy, I love being challenged!

     Thanks to @MiloWinterBurn, @falcennial, @TeflonTrout and @idlestate for encouraging to debate on this subject!

     H/T https://infosec.exchange/@dymaxion/113248082319964695