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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by specialist on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:04PM (#10697679)
This is an arms race, not a dilemma.

"The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it." -- John Gilmore

The advertisers will just inline the ads, changing content sites from redirectors to proxies.

Rock, paper, scissors.

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by oldmanjay on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:26PM (#10697841)
That in itself is a win, as it relieves the user from third party trackers. It also raises the barrier to integration, potentially causing ad-including web developers to pay a little more attention to the hell they are foisting on their users.
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