• neo@lemy.lol
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    5 months ago

    There are radio stations, financed through ads. And they check if people are listening by calling random persons to ask them what station they are listening to.

    So this is a viable business model and nobody is stopping anybody from putting plain pictures and links on sites and just estimate the page visits, but online advertisers want to know more. They always want more.

    At the same time, a browser is the essential software to browse the web. So this is as if your TV was like:

    Yo, many people mute their TV during commercials and don’t pay attention, which kills the poor networks. So I made a deal with advertisers and will check what your doing, while I provide unmutable ads , but don’t worry, your privacy is very important to us and we only care about providing to you the best TV experience possible.

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      5 months ago

      So do i understand it correctly, that ads are ok for you, but not targeted ads, because the advertisers always want to know more? Then that seems to be what mozilla is trying to achieve here: to limit what advertisers can know about you.

      The technology for targeted ads are already in place, this could be an alternative that preserves more privacy than current ad networks.