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Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising (blog.mozilla.org)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not the first time Mozilla has done something like this. In 2017, Mozilla stealthily installed a tracking and advertising plugin called Cliqz on a small number of German user's computers, which provided users with targeted ads, with very similar language to what Mozilla is currently trying to incorporate with Anonym.