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Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market"(blog.mozilla.org)

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erenkoylu@lemmy.ml
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Internet was fine in the early 2000s before the rise of social media platforms resulted in surveillance advertisement complex.

It was a different place, but worked ok.

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dan@upvote.au
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Sounds like you’re forgetting about the dot com bubble. The internet wasn’t fine abck then because nobody really had a sustainable business model.

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LWD@lemm.ee
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The dot com bubble made the Internet explode, sure, but corporate sites weren’t the entire internet back then. There were far more niche sites, web rings, forums, etc…

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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Surveillance advertisement was already around.

Social Media platforms simply capitalized on it.

And users sucked it up for “convenience”.

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