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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by 0des on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:21AM (#28785276)
The trick is, you can't, unfortunately. You can have relevant ads that encroach on your privacy, or you can have possibly irrelevant ads that don't. If we are considering all possibilities, they could have precomputed some magic to do it all locally, but I have doubts about that because it seems more difficult to do that than just slap an identifier on your keystrokes and consult their ad-partner API.
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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by genrilz on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:26AM (#28785334)
Based off TFA, it looks like they don't send any sort of identifier to adMarketplace. By relevant they mean relevant to whatever you typed into the search bar this time, not relevant to your browsing history or things you previously typed into the search bar.
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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by 0des on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:46AM (#28785502)
They should be more direct about what they mean, because to me, an engineer, that was not readily apparent without your interpretation of it.
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