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Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by noizejoy on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:34PM (#22243178)
Agreed - and I really dislike how anti-tracking technologies are commonly called ad-blocking. I’m ok with ads, but not ok with tracking.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by taneq on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:23PM (#22243424)
Honestly I'm not really OK with either. Of the two I'm less OK with tracking, but I also don't want to live in a future like Minority Report (https://youtu.be/oBaiKsYUdvg) with giant ad-walls in your face wherever you (virtually or physically) go.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by 0xcde4c3db on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:34PM (#22243492)
Or even a "future" like the '90s, if I'm being entirely honest.

Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by taneq on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:01PM (#22243626)
True, print newspapers look(ed) basically like news websites do now if you turn off your adblocker. 3/4 of a page of ads for a quarter page of content.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by bambax on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:27AM (#22245288)
I don't like tracking but I don't really care; yet I'm strongly opposed to ads in any form. Forcefully showing me content I didn't ask for is an act of violence against my mind / against me.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by hunter2_ on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:19PM (#22243408)
I believe a majority of users of these extensions have the opposite feelings: complacency with tracking, and not ok with being exposed to ads.