As I’ve written before, I’ve switched browsers to Vivaldi and am very happy about that choice:
I used to be a big fan of Mozilla’s Firefox browser. Now I read about For Advertising Firefox Now Collects User Data By Default. Learning about stuff like this makes it hard to continue to trust them. What are the alternatives? Going back to Safari? Not sure about what to do.
Today I find a link in my RSS feeds where Mozilla’s strategy is now revealed publicly. They seem to want to create a new advertising infrastructure.
Across both pillars (product and infrastructure), we maintain the same goal – to build digital advertising solutions that respect individuals’ rights. Solutions that achieve a balance between commercial value and public interest. Why is that something for Mozilla to address? Because Mozilla’s mission is to build a better internet. And, for the foreseeable future at least, advertising is a key commercial engine of the internet, and the most efficient way to ensure the majority of content remains free and accessible to as many people as possible.
I am trying to figure out which websites I visit regularly that have to rely on advertising. I will make a small collection and create replies to this post with all the sites that come to mind. It’ll be interesting to see how much the part of the net that I use has to rely on ads.