Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history…

    • UltraFiestaMango@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      it’s crazy how many people just use whatever is most popular and never question it. the number of people who don’t use even a basic adblocker is mind-blowing.

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      1 year ago

      People usually don’t respond well with threats they don’t perceive as harmful, or can’t perceive physically at all. Targeted ads and privacy in general is abstract to many people, and the only time they’ll start responding is if their emails or social medias get hacked due to their infos being sold on the dark web or something like that.

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          1 year ago

          Targeted ads. Promotional campains to make people more aware of Firefox/why it’s better. Be more present online (instead of passively depending on the userbase). Take inputs from the community and actually doing something with them rather than saying “k” and then doing nothing. Those are just some off the top of my head.

          Edit: as pointed out by a kind user, targeted ads was a poor choice of words. I explained myself better below in the comments

          • El Barto@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Targeted ads.

            I agree with everything you said except for the targeted ads part. It would be wildly hypocritical of them to do this.

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              Very fair point. My bad, I expressed myself poorly. What I meant with ‘targeted ads’ was to show ads not on the browser itself but to people who might be more easily convinced to use Firefox. For example, there’s a huge amount of viewers on YouTube that are tech-oriented. Nobody is stopping Firefox from sponsoring creators, videos or even collaborating with them.