Promoted Add-ons Pilot
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Promoted Add-ons Pilot
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#2Seems like a reasonable choice to bring in some revenue and also scale up their extension review team. I personally prefer to trust an app almost solely based on the permissions it asks for, but many of the "Recommend Extensions" have wider permissions, and I suppose the fact that Mozilla has reviewed them comforts me a bit.
The fact that Mozilla will only promote/market extensions which have been reviewed by humans for security and privacy issues is a big step up over pretty much everyone else.
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#3I really like this step, but I think this limitation is quite a shame: "You (or your company) must be based in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, or Singapore, because once the pilot ends, we can only accept payment from these countries"
I've got two extensions which I'm really fond of: "I don't care about cookies" (1), and its paid version "No thanks" (2). The creator, Daniel, lives in Croatia and thus they won't be able to join this program. I hope the country limitation is lifted soon.
1) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
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#4This is the exact same thing they said they wouldn't do, and now they're doing it.
This is very unfortunate. I'm not liking how the future is looking here. Fired a bunch of people, then announce a partnership with Google, and now this.
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#5I really like this step, but I think this limitation is quite a shame: "You (or your company) must be based in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, or Singapore, because once the pilot ends, we can only accept payment from these countries" I've got two extensions which I'm really fond of: "I don't care about cookies" (1), and its paid version "No thanks" (2). The creator, D…
Perhaps users in one of the accepted countries might be willing to pay for the review as a way of supporting the plugin? I definitely would be willing to contribute (directly / indirectly) to support review of plugins that I use.
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#6This is the exact same thing they said they wouldn't do, and now they're doing it. This is very unfortunate. I'm not liking how the future is looking here. Fired a bunch of people, then announce a partnership with Google, and now this.
The company needs money. They're the only browser out there not directly controlled by Google & Apple.
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#7This is the exact same thing they said they wouldn't do, and now they're doing it. This is very unfortunate. I'm not liking how the future is looking here. Fired a bunch of people, then announce a partnership with Google, and now this.
When did they say they wouldn’t do that?
I am not seeing the big concern around promoting paid ads on the add on site assuming they are clearly marked as such.
That’s how they’ve made money since the beginning except it was ads on all searches, and it was google doing the infrastructure work for them.
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#8This is the exact same thing they said they wouldn't do, and now they're doing it. This is very unfortunate. I'm not liking how the future is looking here. Fired a bunch of people, then announce a partnership with Google, and now this.
The company needs money. They're the only browser out there not directly controlled by Google & Apple.
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#9Mozilla makes a gazillion dollars from Google for being the default search engine. They get free labor from volunteers all over the world, being OSS and all that. So what do they need extra money for??