On 2/13/2014 1:04 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
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.
I think that's moot.
IE introduced a Suggested Sites (a similar feature, I'd suggest) in 2008
(!) and it remains in IE 11. See
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/get-browsing-suggestions#ie=ie-8
For Chrome, it's a rather different case. I find it harder and harder
to distinguish between Chrome and Google's services. I think it's
reasonable to say that the former exists to push the user to the latter,
which of course monetise through advertising.
Patrick
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
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