I've sent "Do Not Charge" signal to the cashier on my way out of the store. He said I need Charge Badger, but it's not available until 2017. I've tried also "Do Not Track", but he refused to close his eyes. He charged me. Damn.
Mate, the option, when you enable it - it's disables all ads and tracking from Google and some other networks.
It's doesn't matter on what network you are, on what device.
I'm on desktop dual Xeon, with high bandwidth, and this feature disables Adsense ads. It's not disable some other Ad networks, for which Mozilla never heard of, but most of the Ads are disabled.
I perfectly understand your position of freedom. However, you should understand that the articles you read, are written by people. They have families to support. If you as visitor are not willing to pay, who will pay the salaries of all writers in the world?
The website is a trader, the visitor is a customer. The trader is agreeing to sell the content to the customer if the customer pays the price - view ads (or pay subscription). The visitor agrees with this and receives the content. If the visitor (with the help of the third party tool - browser or extension) disable ads, the visitor is violating the user agreement.
If this option "Disable Ads" is OK, and is accepted by all browsers, this mean there will be nobody willing to write content, because ads are main source of revenue of most of the websites.
I simply cannot understand how this could work.
For me, it's clear that Mozilla will negotiate with Google and other Ad providers to receive some money to remove this feature.
I see your point, but here the problem is not only tracking, but ads serve.
As a content provider, my content is "what the broadcast transmitter sent", this is a code sent from my server to the browser of the client. Now Mozilla and AdBlock extensions are modifying my code. It's very clear what I wish to send - my code, but this program is modifying my code. Superfish and other injection malware replace parts of my code with theirs, while ad blockers and Mozilla, just remove some of my code.
As a content provider, ads or subscription (ad free) are my only ways to monetize.
It's very hypocritical to disable ads and in the same time to make 97% of your money from Ad company.
Almost all of Mozilla's revenue for 2013, the last year for which it has reported financials, came from search deals that make various providers, notably Google, the default in Firefox. Of the $314 million in revenue for 2013, $306 million, or 97%, came from the search deals.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2862717/mozilla-were-no...
They are abusing their dominate positions and basically stealing from websites. The product "Mozilla" will be very popular because of the feature "Disable Ads and Track". They could make tons of donations because of that. And websites, that actually create content will serve content for free.