Daniel, you're intentionally reading my comment out of context: You mentioned Adblock+ whose primary purpose it is to get rid of "Times Square"-style ads. Treating these tiles the same way is what I cautioned against.
You argue (now) that you don't see a difference. Which is fine. I don't agree, but it's fine. Throwing me into a vague "corporate blah-blah" bucket however is uncalled for, nor claiming I am not part of the Mozilla community. Fred On Wed Feb 12 21:57:37 2014, Daniel Glazman wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
