Compare to what Mozilla shows their users in a pop-up tab after the update:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/130.0/whatsnew/

Isn’t it strange that it doesn’t mention anything from the release notes on this page?

The only thing it does mention, Close Duplicate Tabs, isn’t mentioned on the release notes.

I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault for being confused or misinterpreting what’s in the article, because even Mozilla calls it blocking:

And starting in 2024, all our users can look forward to Firefox blocking even more third party cookies.

The linked page is even more confusing, because it provides a link back to this page for clarification about which third party cookies are being blocked.

So the update is, Firefox now blocks all third party cookies by default?

That’s great and new news… I just wish this post reflected that, so I wouldn’t have to dig through comments to figure out what changed between 2022 and today.

I was confused enough when they initially announced Total Cookie Protection in 2021 and then re-announced it as rolled out to all users in 2022.

I wasn’t thinking about that one, although it is hilarious Mozilla thinks it can claim it isn’t scraping private data by using a business collaborator as an intermediary.

It’s about their FakeSpot subsidiary.

Also not what I said.

Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023.

Mozilla became an advertising company in June, 2024.

Isn’t it curious that they’ve suddenly become much less outspoken about ad blocking after 2022?

You keep posting things that agree with me. I don’t think you understand that.

The only way to find a contradiction is to find new articles that trumpet their ad blocking capabilities, not old ones from years ago.

Do you understand, years ago?

A “value”!

How very specific!

If the Boeing Corporation started building “world peace” weapons silently into their commercial aircraft without telling anybody, I would question their commitment to world peace.

When Mozilla, an AdTech company, builds extra advertising data collection into Firefox, I question their commitment to privacy and not simply selling ads.

Source: 2022

Hey look, years ago.

And your other page was 2018.

Why would a Firefox fan endorse the state coming down on the side of a Facebook made proposal? I remember when Mozilla used to be about fighting big tech corporations, not empowering them through state-mandated monopolies.

Mozilla had the opportunity to do this. Or to do something like this. GNU Taler is a thing.

Mozilla pulled a sneaky trick on his community: convincing us that context sensitive advertisement needs to be collected by the browser. It’s on the back of another trick: convincing people that they can only make money through ads.

A few months ago, Mozilla officially became an ad company, so any claim they make about privacy has a clear conflict of interest with their own monetary gain. By selling advertisements as a necessary evil, they can sell you the cure.

Did you read the article? Your link supports the point it was making: Mozilla doesn’t mention ad blocking anywhere. It’s immediately brought up in the comments, but Mozilla itself doesn’t want to broach the topic.

Years ago, Mozilla would explicitly call ad blocking a privacy feature, and proclaim it explicitly.

Now they don’t.

It is Mozilla’s job to show us what data is shared. Mozilla failed on that front.

If you want to be the Mozilla evangelist, then show us all on Mozilla’s behalf exactly what data gets sent over, so that we can replicate it.

You know what they say about people who assume, especially when it’s about a company that had to sneak their changes into the browser in a way that would make even Google executives blush.

That is correct: why would any corporation choose to sideline their current advertisement model by creating an extra solution that doesn’t even tap 3% of the market, while abandoning the data collection they already have?

If you trust the advertisement company to provide private ads, they can do it without the browser working on their behalf.

And if you don’t trust the advertisement company, there’s nothing the browser can do to make their ads list privacy invasive… Besides blocking it.

The source to the table is me, but I can provide the article that inspired it.

The burden of evidence is on Mozilla to tell us exactly what data they are consuming, down to the byte. Otherwise, informed consent cannot be given.

And Mozilla should not be the thief of informed consent.

Companies get extra data through Firefox, which now acts on behalf of the ad corporations.

But advertisers have better options, both for reach, or for privacy. They can simply do A/B testing on their own, without involving a third party…

*If you trust the advertiser, they can do it on their own. If you don’t trust the advertiser, then the additional third party does nothing.

You said

The main difference between Mozilla and Google is that Google is actually sucking up your data.

I responded to you in kind.

Wait, what solution are you proposing? That every browser becomes a centralized point of data collection for advertisement companies, and that the government mandates it?!

Google and Brave already want to do that, Mozilla is just stepping into the fray as a browser with less than 3% of a market share. There is nothing compelling to advertisers about a proprietary Mozilla solution.