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Screw you Mozilla
(lemmy.nz)
If this isn't a targetted advert in my browser, I don't know what is.
And here's where you turn it off:
Somewhere, a dastardly Mozilla engineer is cursing you out for figuring it out, even though they specifically labeled it ‘Sponsored’ as a double-bluff.
It’s crazy that you think this was the engineers’ idea and not someone like the marketing director using their corporate capital to force the dev team to implement it… like pretty much every other company
It’s crazy that you think I thought that
Also, haven’t they been doing this for a long time?
The phrasing that shows in my version on mobile is now "support Firefox with occasional sponsored suggestions," to try the guilt angle as well.
Those monsters!