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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by Omniusaspirer on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:25PM (#10699196)
"Pioneer"? Really? Is the bar so low now that embedding ads into the browser is considered innovative?
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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by rimantas on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:05PM (#10699518)
IIRC Opera had it years ago. Maybe even before there was Firefox.
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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by ake1 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:32PM (#10699702)
they had ads but only in the free version, if you bought opera there were no ads.
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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by gsnedders on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:43PM (#10699790)
Well… of sorts. The default set on Speed Dial were (and are) sold, which you can easily construe as adverts.
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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by Certhas on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @03:47AM (#10702612)
That's not what they did. They embedded targeted ads that respected your privacy, by having all targeting done client side and not sending information about you back to the server.

That the general public doesn't care about that is one thing, that all the people crtizising them here don't seem to care is another.

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