For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default

Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by thoroughburro on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:40AM (#40976537)

Older folks might remember that there were a lot of people willing to make content free, just out of personal enthusiasm, and that this content was actually a lot higher quality than that pumped out by capitalist motivation.

So, actually, users and sites both had what they wanted, just not corporations.

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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by LunaSea on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:50AM (#40976612)

I agree and these people still exist.

However not all content can be produced this way, news or sports coverage would be an example.

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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by account42 on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @11:49AM (#40977633)

You get faster and better news coverage from random people on social media than news corporations these days.

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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by LunaSea on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:36PM (#40978062)

Although I agree that news media quality is not always great (really depends from one publisher to another), I would not really qualify random people on Twitter as "news coverage".

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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by beej71 on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @02:45PM (#40979132)

Especially given how likely it is that bots are or will soon be rampant.

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