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Mozilla doesn’t embed an ad network in your browser!?!? Why would anybody want a browser that does this?

You can do whatever you want to do with Firefox. Enjoy the free blocking mechanisms, including fingerprinting, and install whichever 3rd party ad blocker.

Users understand the relationship there, so please don’t try to spin it. It’s not about user’s data.

You’re embedding an ad client into the browser. You want to sell ads yourself. Selling ads and controlling the browser is Google. That’s a conflict of interests.

* fixed typos




Brave doesn’t “embed an ad network in your browser” either. If we should bother taking more, let’s agree on common definitions first.

We give no browsing data out to any server including ours, and we pay users 70% of the gross. This user-first design flips the Google model that Mozilla facilitates by default for its ad revenue share. If our users don’t like it, we go out of business. If Firefox users remain unaware of their uncompensated value to Google, Mozilla thrives. Got it?


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