I genuinely believe Mozilla thinks it's acting in the public interest by moving so completely into the ad-tech ecosystem, claiming that it's doing so in a privacy-protecting way.
But the history of ad-tech is that it swallows everything it touches.
Mozilla + ad-tech = ad-tech.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/
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