On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
This this this. A thousand times this. The "optics" (in the political sense) of this announcement is about as un-Mozilla as I can imagine. Selling ads in the browser -- even the most tasteful, minimal, reasonable, relevant, privacy-respecting ads imaginable -- is crossing a major threshold. It'll forever make Firefox "the browser with ads". And it leads directly into Zack's slippery slope concerns, for which I have a lot of sympathy. Nick _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
