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minus-squareLWD@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 days agoI’m not a fan of Mozilla accepting money from Google, but it’s absolutely preferable to having a clause in their privacy policy that allows them to sell geolocation data directly to advertising partners. Pre-2023, I don’t think they did that.
minus-squareVincent@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoAnd where did that Google money come from? (It’s a rhetorical question of course: it came from Firefox users clicking on ads.)
I’m not a fan of Mozilla accepting money from Google, but it’s absolutely preferable to having a clause in their privacy policy that allows them to sell geolocation data directly to advertising partners. Pre-2023, I don’t think they did that.
And where did that Google money come from?
(It’s a rhetorical question of course: it came from Firefox users clicking on ads.)