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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by ubernostrum on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:13PM (#15934231)
There are things I don't agree with that Mozilla does, but I will stand up for that one. The idea behind the "tiles" was to try to figure out a way to do privacy-respecting ads. And if you look at how it actually worked... it was actually a really good plan for how that could happen.

Mozilla's job is to find ways to push the web forward in ways that respect humans, and ads are, well, how the web mostly gets funded. So it's entirely within bounds for them to try to figure out ways to make ads work without invading people's privacy.

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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by hutzlibu on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:56PM (#15934534)
Maybe if that was actually the goal, it might have been a good thing. But all I received was marketing blabla to tell ads are enhancement.

And if Mozilla really are different, then they should communicate different - honest.

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