On 12/19/13, 12:48 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote:
I introduced my concern -- that Mozillians in the West often drop in to
discussions like this with little or no local context and propose that
other Mozillians in other radically different areas of the world should
"just do what we do in California and it'll all be great" as if it was
all that simple and easy. I consider those kinds of naive suggestions
unhelpful and in some cases even insulting to the people who have put in
huge Mozilla efforts spanning years (a decade even) trying to figure out
these radically different markets that don't behave at all like how most
Western Mozillians expect.
My suggestions do have a naive, "Californian" bias, so I look forward to
an explanation of the Mozilla addon's behavior from people who work
closely with our Chinese users.
Do Chinese users mind that malware silently alters their computer settings?
If they don't (which would surprise Western me), then this is not a
problem and Mozilla does not need to do anything. However, this Mozilla
addon issue was uncovered by Firefox users who were unhappy that their
bookmarks were being rewritten.
If they do mind, then why is Mozilla engaging in the same activity? If
the bookmark rewriting is a self-defense, it is not an effective one. If
it is an affiliate revenue program from jd.com to Mozilla, then let's
admit that and discuss the parameters and implementation of that program.
chris
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