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Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:51PM (#24136066)
Enemy #1? I hear more about Facebook in the Firefox default startpage than _everywhere else I look_.

Today, in fact, there is a huge pseudo-advertisiment (at least in fr_FR) about "how I should not feel guilty about browsing Facebook [through Firefox]" , which almost made me puke.

As a person who doesn't care about Facebook whatsoever, I didn't get the impression that FB was enemy #1, but rather I assumed FB was paying them money like Google is...

I can actually see FB being happy to just give money away to Mozilla, just to influence them away from Google.

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Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by sciurus on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:32PM (#24137250)
I believe what you saw was a promotion of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

That extension is described as:

"Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook."

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Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by MikusR on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:56PM (#24136870)
That full page ad was advertising the Mozilla made Facebook container. Based on absence of Mozilla made Google container, I think that ad was paid by Google.
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