+1 on engaging the Web We Have On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Mike Hoye <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-08-26 5:43 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: >> >> >> IMO, I doubt that it's "we no longer care about that threat" as much as >> Mozilla's leadership deciding that not playing the game at all, giving up on >> building products and educating users that might positively influence the >> rules of the game, and ceding the space to entities with less scruples than >> Mozilla, is a worse outcome than playing the game knowing that it's kind of >> ugly and impure. At least if you're in the game, you have the opportunity at >> influence. > > > For what it's worth, I think that a marketing-driven business model will > exist for as long as the Internet exists; by and large people have > demonstrated - even if they're not always fully informed about the details > of the transaction, sure - that they're willing to trade off a degree of > privacy for a degree of convenience, entertainment and security. > > I don't think we're going to be able to build the Web We Want without > engaging with the business models that underpin the Web We Have as much as > the tech does. The trick is show people on the marketing side of the table > that a minimally intrusive approach that's respectful of privacy concerns is > also a good return on their investment while also providing our users with > the choice to not participate. > > Oddly enough, that's why I think that Chris Beard's idea of a very strict > privacy-centric Firefox is going to be important for any marketing efforts > we do, to show those users who care a lot about personal privacy that it > still matters to us, and that we're still putting the work into giving > people the option of saying no. > > - mhoye > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
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