Mozilla Firefox v60: We all know that nothing on the internet is free, και το πώς οι μεγάλες εταιρίες του διαδικτύου μπορεί να φαίνεται ότι διαθέτουν περιεχόμενο δωρεάν (βλέπε Google ή Facebook), αλλά τελικά κερδίζουν από τα δεδομένα μας και τη advertising. In the past we have mentioned that we are the product.
The Mozilla Foundation could not miss the party. So soon (from next week) we will see ads being served through the Firefox browser. The problem is that Mozilla's browser does not hold the best market share at the moment, with Google Chrome prevailing by a wide margin.
Why is it a problem? The movement of the institution may disappoint many users who choose Firefox for their daily browsing, and the frustration of the end user leaves no room for hope of greater adoption of the browser.
Of course Mozilla is trying to gild the pill by stating that the details will not be sold to advertising companies.
Of course we should mention that the Mozilla Foundation does not consider sponsoring content, or accepting sponsorship for content… Yes, it is the positive reflow of the term advertising (ad) that sounds very badly in marketing.
So at least supports Nate Weiner, founder and CEO of Pocket. Mozilla took over the company at the beginning of last year.
Weiner mentioned that we need high quality content. At its best, the Internet makes us laugh, makes us think, teaches us, and brings us new perspectives. Content producers, for better or for worse, depend on advertising to make their content available. But the model just doesn't work anymore, for her protection of user privacy and with clickbait garbage.
Unfortunately, this ad model does not work today. It does not respect users' privacy, it is not transparent and it lacks control, something that leads us to low quality content, clickbait.
What is the post-message? Yes we will serve ads but quality content…
From the beginning of the year, the Mozilla Foundation started showing some links in Firefox with recommended content on the new tab page. Some of the recommendations were granted. These links already exist in the Nightly and Beta versions from last Monday. With Firefox 60, which will be released on May 9, the feature will be available to all Firefox users in the US.
The Mozilla Foundation promises that it will not send user data to advertising companies and will not collect it on the company's servers.
In Mozilla, we take your personal data very seriously. The Activity Stream page will not collect data that could help in your personal identification. We will not broadcast what you are browsing, searches you make or your private settings. Activity Stream will not send cookies and will use Layer Security ransport technology to securely transmit data to Mozilla servers.
The foundation states that the data collected will be stored on their servers securely for 30 days in anonymous and aggregated form. Then they will be permanently deleted…
