Mozilla is the company behind Firefox, which is one of the most popular search engines on the internet Josep Lago/AFP/Getty ImagesMozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser, today became the first leading organisation to pull its advertising from Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy controversy. The non-profit organisation said it was encouraged by a pledge yesterday evening from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, to revise the platform’s privacy settings, but had decided to “press pause” on its advertising with the social network because it still had concerns about how robust the new controls were. David Kershaw, chief executive of M&C Saatchi, said his clients were losing patience with Facebook John Nguyen for The Times“When Facebook takes stronger action in how it shares customer data, specifically strengthening its default privacy settings for third-party apps, we’ll consider returning,” Denelle Dixon, Mozilla’s chief business and legal officer, said in a blog post. Mozilla vies with Internet Explorer for the title of second most popular…

Source: The Times March 22, 2018 17:03 UTC