> On Feb 12, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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.
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