On 04/12/13 08:06, Li Gong wrote: > It may sound logical but to state this in an absolutely way is > totally naive. We never do things in complete isolation. We have been > forced to do untold number of things because actions on the part of > others. If your opponents fight dirty, sometimes you have to fight > back dirty. Of course you can choose to stay high moral and clean and > healthy and play hero all you want, but the day you cease to exist, > you no longer matter. There is a delicate balance here, and that is > still being found out.
If there are companies out there modifying Firefox links to include affiliate identifiers to that they get extra money, how does it hinder or stop them for us to engage in the same behaviour? If we engage in this behaviour, it seems like this is less "fighting back dirty" and more "joining in on the opposition's side". > As for the policy questions, I will leave it other forum members to > comment. I would have no problem whatsoever with Mozilla issuing a statement which says: "We will never insert affiliate or tracking IDs into a user's links or bookmarks without their explicit consent." I can't think of a situation where that would ever be justified. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
