Reuben, It would make us the browser with ads because no offense to Opera or Apple but their browsers are but small fish in the browser ocean. That is why this has attracted so much attention is because Firefox is a player and is relevant.
If Chrome or IE landed a similar feature I'm sure they would get the same coverage. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Reuben Morais <[email protected]>wrote: > On Feb 12, 2014, at 20:51, 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. > > Not that this changes my opinion on the matter, but it won't make us /the/ > browser with ads, it'll make us /a/ browser with ads. Both Safari and Opera > have done this for a very long time now. > > -- reuben > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- Benjamin Kerensa http://benjaminkerensa.com This message may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the named addressee of this message please destroy it without reading, using, copying or disclosing its contents to any other person. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
