Hi all, I mostly subscribe to what Pascal said. If this implementation doesn't affect user's privacy and there is a dialogue with the user about her preferences (looks like the UP service does this) then it's a good way to diversify revenue.
Think that Mozilla's revenue until now was coming from the ads industry as well, but more indirectly (communicated as "partnership with search providers"). The problem here is the communication, as always. The blog post lacks some essence and looks very commercial (for a tech. non-profit, mission oriented org). I believe there are some ethics / a vision and an economic approach to Mozilla Services. Hoping that soon, some of the "leaders" of the project will start a public conversation about this...it would probably avoid frustration and confusion in the future. My 2 cents, Alina On 12 February 2014 12:25, Fjoerfoks <[email protected]> wrote: > Lots of negative responses indeed, in The Netherlands too, like "Exit > Firefox due to new ads", etc. > Although the explanation is clear and > > http://tweakers.net/nieuws/94263/mozilla-gaat-firefox-van-advertenties-voorzien.html > is being objective. > > When I first saw the headlines dropping by, it even made me shiver, guess > this has not been marketed well. > Mozilla needs to be carefull the next days and try to be clear about htis. > > > 2014-02-12 11:14 GMT+01:00 Majken Connor <[email protected]>: > > > Without having an opinion on any of the other aspects, Mozilla does need > to > > do a much better job at supporting like-minded organizations. So having > > tiles that do that in itself seems like a good idea. > > > > The rest of it I agree I would remain wary until knowing more details. > > Would we approach these companies and solicit them? "We like you, if you > > give us money we'll promote you..." just doesn't have a nice sound to it. > > > > I think the big problem is that things get announced and the process of > how > > we got there isn't transparent. I'm sure people have thought of these > > things, it would be nice to have anticipated concerns addressed up front. > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57618750-92/mozilla-to-sell-new-tab-page-ads-in-firefox/ > > > > > > This doesn't seem actually very negative, as I read it. Am I reading > > > it that differently? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Dirkjan > > > _______________________________________________ > > > governance mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > governance mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
