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I think that's the point: Google has been shutting down Manifest V2 extensions one step at a time, and it's been experimenting with anti-ad-block tech on YouTube with one user group at a time.

If a company is unethical, they will ignore the Mozilla standard. If a company is ethical, they don't need the Mozilla standard, as they can adopt their own tracking-free methods of serving ads.

I have been told repeatedly by Firefox advertisement advocates that PPA only affects people that don't use ad blockers, so it allegedly only affects people that are already blasted by tracking networks to the fullest extent possible, while people who use ad blockers wouldn't see the supposedly less invasive ads anyway. So it's either 100% tracking to 110% tracking, or 0% tracking to 0% tracking. Seems like a lose-lose scenario for both sides of the equation.

disingeneous to call it adding ads

Who called it adding

With all due respect, Mozilla is now (and, for a while, has been) an ad company. When an ad company tells you ads are necessary, you should not trust them. Plenty of lousy things have been entrenched as social norms, but it is the job of the entrenchers to justify their existence... Which Mozilla is definitely not doing here.

Well, I don't foresee any downsides. Hopefully they can continue making an incredible browser and operating system respectively.

A for-profit that wrapped itself in a non-profit shell that is empty and just run by the for-profit?

Depending how deep you are into using the service, this might be an indicator to start shopping around for other options, as there are some that provide multiple domains and unlimited aliases for the cool price of $0 versus whatever Proton charges you...

...Especially if iCloud makes the other side of the equation difficult.

The Mozilla Foundation is a thin wrapper for the Mozilla Corporation, and it's run by the executives themselves.

Please explain to me how sending additional data from your private computer to Mozilla servers gives me more privacy and not less.

In addition, a lot of Proton services are overpriced compared to third-party offerings.

You can use your own self-hosted servers with this too.

If you want.

Self-hosting can create its own additional privacy and security issues... unless you totally trust not only the place where you put the server, but also yourself to be a security expert

Maybe they could even stop charging subscription fees for client-side features for the people who self-host...