Former Facebook execs are running Firefox adtech (goblin.band)

38 points by jordigh 1y ago ↗ HN

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rvz 1y ago ↗

Lots of expletives in the article, but the TL;DR:

Mozilla bought an ad-tracking company run by ex-Meta executives and Mozilla is selling your browsing activity in Firefox "privately" to advertisers.

Mozilla has given up on privacy.

bigtimesink 1y ago ↗

> Mozilla is selling your browsing activity in Firefox "privately" to advertisers

Do you have a better source for this?

rvz 1y ago ↗

This is a better source: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/anonym-technology-overv...

bigtimesink 1y ago ↗

Where does it say Mozilla has your browsing history or sells it?

iszomer 1y ago ↗

I transitioned to Waterfox. It has a couple issues such as being unable to login to my banking services and getting Youtube to sign into Google's SSO but I hope to resolve at a later time. Be prepared to reconfigure all your extensions again though..

autoexec 1y ago ↗

This is very old news, but I'm glad the word is getting out. Firefox is an ad-tech company now and should be avoided.

lxgr 1y ago ↗

> All data processed by Anonym is encrypted end-to-end. Data is processed in Trusted Execution Environments using Intel SGX.

Oh boy... (And I say that as a cautious optimist about both Firefox and secure enclaves.)