Just wanted to surface this comment, because not enough people are cognizant of the fact that adblockers do their job and prevent any PPA submissions.

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    5 months ago

    "Privacy features, in Firefox, are not meant to be opt-in. " But anti privacy features and user influencing features are. So what’s the point here?

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      5 months ago

      I think they believe it’s not anti-privacy, but a lesser of two evils.

      Mozilla/Firefox simply can’t exist without ads. Google same thing. So why would they actively contribute to their own demise by declaring war on ads?

      Instead they chose a compromise that still allows ads but in a more responsible/private way. And you can still turn it off. Sure it should have been opt-in, but I think most people wouldn’t use it then and we’re back to the same problems.