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Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising | The Mozilla Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )

Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for the advertising industry by ensuring user privacy while delivering effective advertising solutions....

ericjmorey ,
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That article makes is very clear that Laura Chambers is filling an interim role as CEO for less than a year as they look for someone else to take the role on a longer term basis.

ericjmorey ,
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It's not clear to me if this is an acquisition of the venture capital subsidiary, but this part of Anonym's FAQ is disappointing:

Privacy is an ambiguous term! Our primary focus is reducing or eliminating the need for advertisers and ad platforms to share personally identifiable information, attributes and behaviors about individuals with each other. It’s this kind of data sharing that often violates the expectations of users and creates legal and policy compliance issues.

AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease.

David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE’s software), and everything in between....

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I haven’t used KDE in a long time because I’ve been keeping things simple and just accepting most defaults on Pop!_OS.

What would be the most compelling reason, in your opinion, to make the effort to try out KDE?

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Plasma 6 RC2 is now out! Ask Us Anything about this release and the upcoming Megarelease in general TODAY, Jan. 31, on Reddit and Lemmy at 6 pm UTC

This is the final test release before KDE publishes Plasma 6.0, Gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 on February 28.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc2/

If you would like to find out more, developers of all these things will be answering questions today, Jan 31, live on Reddit and Lemmy at 6 pm. Join us!

https://reddit.com/r/kde
https://lemmy.kde.social/c/kde

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A view of Plasma 6 with a dark theme, and windows showing the system settings.
KDE developers David Redondo, Nate Graham, and Josh Goins.

ericjmorey ,
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FYI 6:00pm UTC is
7:00pm CET Central European Time
1:00pm EST Eastern Standard Time
10:00am PST Pacific Standard Time
11:30pm IST Indian Standard Time
2:00am HKT Hong Kong Time
3:00am JST Japan Standard Time
5:00am AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time
7:00am NZDT New Zealand Daylight Time

kde , to KDE
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KDE e.V. is looking for a project lead and event manager for environmental sustainability project.

https://ev.kde.org/2024/01/14/2024-01-14-job-project-lead-event-manager/

@kde @be4foss

ericjmorey ,
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That could be your first order of business as project leader

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