@tchambers @Vivaldi ... and I guess that with their current attitude, it's pointless to suggest the same to #Mozilla?

FOSS NEWS

Google lost its ad monopoly trial, Mozilla is concerned about the future of the company:
https://betanews.com/2025/04/18/google-has-lost-its-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-and-mozilla-is-scared/
("If the Department of Justice truly wants to fix competition, they can’t solve one problem by creating another." - as much as I dislike Mozilla, I think they are mostly right here. It was a really poorly made decision, and won't solve anything, as for Mozilla, they will probably get paid by Microsoft to make Bing the default in Firefox, or slowly go bankrupt, and leave the Gecko engine to the community which won't have enough capacity to compete with Google (or if they will be forced to sell Chrome and step down from the Chromium project, it will likely be Microsoft, to maybe kill off Chrome like they did with Skype and Atom, and take control of Chromium), Firefox and its forks will be the next Internet Explorers...)
("Gecko powers Firefox (and other independent browsers) and puts privacy and people first." - nah, unfortunately Firefox is pretty far from a privacy-respecting browser nowadays. A real privacy browser should be private without any manual hardening. But it needs to stay alive because it's the base for some real privacy browsers like LibreWolf.)
(There's quite a lot of aspect of this whole Google thing, maybe it deserves a separate post.)

Proton Pass now has the option to attach files to cards, logins, notes and identity items:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/proton-pass-introduces-file-attachment-feature/

Tor Browser 14.5 released with Connection Assist on Android for users in restricted regions, redesigned logs on desktop etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/tor-browser-14-5-brings-connection-assist-to-android-support-for-new-languages-and-more/

VirtualBox 7.1.8 released with initial support for Linux kernel 6.14 in Guest Additions, bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-1-8-released-with-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-6-14

Forgejo v11.0 released with overview of quotas in the user interface, ability to regenerate access tokens, indication if a pull request is editable, additional boolean operators when searching with an indexer etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/self-hosted-forge-software-forgejo-releases-v11-0-with-new-features-and-enhancements/

(Linux news in original post)

Strong point by #Schibsted: we tried to move away from #Google #Ads when #GDPR came into force but lost so much money we had to go back.

And that's where the event ends. Lots to think about, not very convinced about what #Mozilla is doing.

Glad to see #Rob from #FPF brings up #Kobler's #contextualads solution as a viable alternative to #RTB and #SurveillanceAdvertising.

Also makes a super important point about mandatory #DoNotTrack signals in browsers.

IMO this is what #Mozilla should be working towards, not making #Firefox as a data collection platform.

What a weird world in which the #publisher champions #GDPR because #privacy and #Mozilla says it's harmful

#Schibsted also celebrates the #DigitalMarketsAct for reining in #Meta's #gatekeeper power.

Other interesting point: they'd like #cookies under the #GDPR instead of #ePrivacy combined with a timid acknowledgement that publishers are forced to participate in a system (of #programmatic #advertising) they cannot control.

Wow so the #Mozilla engineer disagrees and claims "#GDPR has done a great deal of harm" (I didn't understand his argument why) but now diverted to saying the #browser should be the platform collect all the personal data and then provide it in aggregated form to advertisers.

This would "give control to people while also unlocking the data".

And all in a sudden, #SurveillanceAdvertising is not a #humanrights issue any more but merely a question of "governance".