On 12/02/14 23:21, Fred Wenzel wrote: > I would be careful with the phrasing. Calling these new tab tiles "ads" > is misleading as it invokes mental images of popups and flashing > Times-Square-style billboards. > > In the case of the sensationalistic tech press, this misinterpretation > is quite intentional. > > I don't think we're advancing the discussion if we fall prey to that.
Oh please, can we avoid here the corporate blah-blah? The Mozilla community at large is complaining in public and perceives these tiles as ads. Even Mozilla employees complain in public, about ads and something else being a "proprietary product". Call them "sponsored blurbs" if you want, when a company pays another one for increased visibility to users, it's in general and across all industries called advertisement. Like it or not. So the press is perfectly right about it. And complaining about the press is too easy; don't want the press to hit you? Don't be hittable by them. The fact you don't seem to see it is a serious concern to me. Is Mozilla Corp. so disconnected from the perception its community currently has? </Daniel> _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
