On 2/12/14, 9:23 AM, David Flanagan wrote:
Wow. You're completely right: this announcement is a total turnoff. Mostly this is because Darren's audience is not Firefox users, but " content creators whether they are publishers or marketers." And if he's writing for publishers and marketers, of course his post is going to be full of the kind of jargon that makes engineers cringe. For the vast majority of Mozillians and Firefox users, Darren's blog post will read like BS.
Announcing Firefox's "not ads" at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual meeting gives a strong impression that these are, in fact, ads and will bring all the baggage of traditional web advertising.
I wished the blog post emphasized at the top of the post that this plan will (for now?) only affect new user profiles until they have built more browsing history. That information and the empty tab screenshot are buried "below the fold" on my screen. A revised screenshot with example tiles is floating around the internet, but it should have been included with the announcement post to temper reader's wild speculation of what the sponsored tiles will look like.
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