More people are taking steps to avoid being tracked by advertisers. Online advertisers have built business models that depend heavily on tracking internet users in order to provide customized advertising; being unable to track users could spell disaster. Additionally, charges that Mozilla is “hijacking the internet” are clearly false—Mozilla’s open source philosophy is in favor of freeing, not hijacking, the internet.

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