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Mozilla is officially rolling out integrated ad blocking in Firefox for iOS (support.mozilla.org)
submitted 16 hours ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/firefox@fedia.io
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1330122/mozilla-is-officially-rolling-out-integrated-ad-blocking-in-firefox-for-ios

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not Firefox’s job to change how Google search works.

Mozilla chose to make it their job to block ads on iOS. The browser is a user agent. It should not give preferential treatment to any website

And this conflicts with their own principles: "Individuals must have the ability to shape the internet and their own experiences on it."

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Okay well Google’s search priority is reportedly 85% of Mozilla’s revenue. How do you think that influenced the product development conversation?

I imagine that ads rendered directly in HTML were off limits from the beginning.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

It's not just Google who gets preferential treatment. They also promise to provide special exceptions to:

Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers

These under-the-table deals obviously contribute far, far less (15%÷4 is much smaller than 85%, and that's assuming they provide all the remaining revenue).

How do you think [Google money] influenced the product development conversation?

Well... There's definitely a nonzero chance that Google is capable of manipulating the development of Firefox behind the scenes, and I consider that possibility to be disconcerting. That suggests Firefox is controlled opposition, either in practice or in effect .

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Ya it makes sense to me. Google sets the standard as their money maker and they treat all search engines the same way to create a standard.

[–] lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net 0 points 8 hours ago

@XLE

Is it an under-the-table deal, or a technical thing ?

AFAIK ads are delivered in search results in a different manner than they are on a regular website (that is, they are integrated in the search result).

@BigDiction