• Vincent@feddit.nl
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      1 month ago

      It’s pretty painful how quickly wrong information spreads. I’m sure it’s not intentional, but that doesn’t really make it better…

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        Even in this actual thread, under the comment you replied to, someone stills thinks that Mozilla is placing ads.

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      I can say confidently that even if you don’t conflate the two; the Mozilla implementation can be broken and abused just as easily as the Google one can be.

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      Interesting thread. But I don’t understand why the data needs to be collected and correlated by a third party, can’t the ads themselves detect views and clicks? (that’s what they need right?)

      Or am I missing something about the process?

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        The advertiser’s don’t place the ads themselves. They say where and when they are placed, but the actual placing/integration is done by the likes of Google, Facebook, and, in this case, Mozilla.

        That’s the “third party” that’s doing the tracking.