> should never be possible for someone to sign away their rights. If you can sign them away, you can be swindled of them.

So, if I sell you my house or car I can't sign away my rights on it? - Sure, there is a difference between material and intellectual property ...

Against swindling there needs to be protection from fraud, but that exists in most legislative systems.

No. Fingerprinting is a function of the ad network to identify ad-worth aspects of me.

That some aspects may be used to push bots away is a minor effect.

To have notable income from blogging requires a very different frequency and posts which attract a broader audience (unless I go really deep and paywall it for experts) That turns blogging from keeping notes and sharing experience to a Job in itself. A Job I for one wouldn't like.

At least pre AI it was easy to identify if a blog was done due to interest or for self advertisment.

I haven't been recruiting recently but goes it's even simpler to identify blogs full of loveless AI slop and people who care about a topic. (Even if they use AI for language assistance etc)

Topics, which details being presented, frequency, ...

There are however two options available:

* Make the browser development the charitable work, or

* accept funding to non-charitable company

However Mozilla earns "enough" from Google, so they don't have to try to make either work.