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		specialist on Dec 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethica... This is an arms race, not a dilemma. "The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it." -- John Gilmore The advertisers will just inline the ads, changing content sites from redirectors to proxies. Rock, paper, scissors.

oldmanjay on Dec 8, 2015 [–]

That in itself is a win, as it relieves the user from third party trackers. It also raises the barrier to integration, potentially causing ad-including web developers to pay a little more attention to the hell they are foisting on their users.

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