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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ads provide nothing useful to society

An easy revenue stream for independent, free website hosters? Without this we wouldn't have free versions of Cookie Clicker, Universal Paperclips, A Dark Room, etc..

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is limited ad-time slots and that means only groups with the most capital are going to occupy those slots.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 months ago

Well, duh. I don’t see what’s wrong with that, and it doesn’t make any difference to people who put ads on their site.