Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
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Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#2The link didn't work for me but I found the article here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57618750-92/mozilla-to-sell...
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#3> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said.
Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#4I'm thinking about proposing something like "I'll run your bloody ads for 1 month. Then you tell me how much you earn off of me and I'll pay you twice that."
I'm all for Mozilla getting income from more sources (instead of search engine revenue), but I just don't like ads. There is a reason I donated in the past.
If I can't disable the ads this way, it's not that hard to install an add-on that does it, edit about:config or just recompile from sources. No problem if you want to play that game. But I'd much rather pay them.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#5> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said. Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
Non-profits still have to pay salaries. Or would you prefer FF effectively no longer exist and have to use Chrome instead?
Honestly, explicit ads marked as ads in the UI are preferable to hidden advertisement/deals - like defaulting to Google search without communicating to users that money has changed hands for that preferential treatment.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#6> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said. Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
Non-profit does not mean free labor.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#7> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said. Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
Non-profits still have to pay salaries. Or would you prefer FF effectively no longer exist and have to use Chrome instead? Honestly, explicit ads marked as ads in the UI are preferable to hidden advertisement/deals - like defaulting to Google search without communicating to users that money has changed hands for that preferential treatment.
A browser which shows me ads versus one which doesn't show me ads. Pretty easy choice. In both cases the funding is coming from ads, but one of these is waving them in my face all the time and the other one isn't.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#8> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said. Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
Non-profits still have to pay salaries. Or would you prefer FF effectively no longer exist and have to use Chrome instead? Honestly, explicit ads marked as ads in the UI are preferable to hidden advertisement/deals - like defaulting to Google search without communicating to users that money has changed hands for that preferential treatment.
Don't they have enough money from Google? They must make at least one dollar a year from each user through search. One would guess...
Or is Google finally cutting into that? Just another way to get rid of competing browsers? Sadly Bing isn't an alternative outside of US (and I'm not even sure about that).
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#9And there was me enjoying the switch I made just last week.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#10The link didn't work for me but I found the article here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57618750-92/mozilla-to-sell...
Didn't work for me either, thanks for a working link!