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0 pointsunreal378y ago0 comments

Firefox, Chrome et al exist to serve ads. That's where they get their funding. That's who pulls the strings. Turning off cookies would kill that model for revenue.

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Hupriene8y ago

Just to clarify and provide some supporting documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing

Mozilla makes money by providing users to companies that make money from ads.

ihaveajob8y ago

You're spot on for Chrome, but I don't think you're familiar with Firefox and the Mozilla foundation.

unreal37OP8y ago

Mozilla Foundation reports $500 million per year in revenue. From search engines, primarily Google.

So, they're not turning on "private browsing" as the default.

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