On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 07:25:15PM +0100, shiret...@web.de wrote: > "ads = tracking/privacy issues" > > If you have some facts why this should be true in general, then > please go ahead and explain them to us.
try a quick search for "how advertising works online" add tracking or cookies for more details - tons of info out there on the subject! > I can't see any reason why this should be true. > Technically, it is perfectly possible to show a banner of an > online-shop without sending any data to nsa or anybody else... it's certainly "technically" possible, but that's not how that industry is doing it right now! > And since firefox is free software we can make sure that it's not doing this. thank goodness! but i do think mozilla is selling out it's users on this issue. > A much better idea than removing the ads, since this will increase > the financial dependancy of mozilla on google; THIS is helping > google and the nsa. you do have a point here, and it's not an easy issue to solve! i don't personally bother blocking ads, i don't go to many sites with ads to begin with...
