"This sounds similar to the feature we heard about in the Firefox in China thread, it seems interesting." -- Majken Connor
On the recent discussions about Directory Tiles on the new tab page, I saw above comment from Majken. Yes, believe it or not, We already have been doing that -- putting sponsored tile on new tab -- in 'Firefox for China'[1] for years. Here is a screen shot of the default New Tab http://www.flickr.com/photos/irvin/12525148734/ And the second page of the New Tab http://www.flickr.com/photos/irvin/12524776123/ There are links to 2 internet portal sites, 1 SNS and 4 online malls in the first page of default New Tab, and numberless links to 4 categories of sites (big site, news, shopping, entertainment) at second page. I believe many of those tiles were add with some kinds of business development affiliates, but there is no visual info on which is sponsored. "There are no any public audit and metrics for those tiles selection, nor privacy statement indicate that we won't send data to commercial partners." Comment by a community member who'd like to remain anonymous, I suspicious that we might be doing that also. [2] And I believe it's the time to re-check these kinds of "regional customized feature", with the same standard we have got for Directory Tiles. Because we believe the users across different markets worth to be treating with same Mozilla's value, whether inside the wall or not. Irvin MozTW Community *DISCLOSURE: Myself and Mozilla Taiwan Community are not against (nor reach agreement) of ads tiles initiates. Also I'm not intend to against our colleague in China. [1] For someone who don't know yet, "Firefox for China" is a special version of Firefox, made by Mozilla Online (MoCo's subsidiary in China). It's differ from normal zh-CN version of Firefox, pre-loaded with several extensions and business affiliates contents. We provide that for all China users from mozilla.com.cn and firefox.com.cn [2] According to some behavior tracking records we'd found from 'Firefox for China' and 'Firefox for Taiwan' last year. Also please refer to my last post at Dec, which I intend to clarify our policy toward the 'official regional customized version of Firefox', https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/bVOjNd8X0Fk/DGtMO6R-dL4J 而且所有市場的所有使用者值得被同樣的標準對待 -- @ irvinfly: community liaison moztw.org Mozilla Taiwan community _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
