"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
  • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    Web 2.0 was the mid-2000s idea that every website and service would be accessible via an http api and that it would allow easy integration. It was ads that killed Web 2.0, as users accessing a site via its api rather than its ad-filled website wouldn’t see any of those ads.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      God I miss Web 2.0. The Fediverse is trying to bring that concept back, luckily.