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Re: Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

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Post by jklm »

dang wrote: post #28

The submitted title ("Mozilla Now Hitting Us with Full Page Ads") broke the site guideline against editorializing. " Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. " - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playi…

Shouldn’t it be reverted to the original title? I remember that was the usual follow up.

Re: Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

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Post by helpfulclippy »

This is very sad. I understand WHY Mozilla is here. But this is an act of absolute degradation: "Every once in a while, something comes along that we can totally get behind."

When Mozilla "gets behind" something, I tend to think of the ethics they state here:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

Of course, no one believes for a second that Mozilla gives a shit about Disney's latest disposable childhood friend. The words on the page are completely meaningless and insincere, and the copy was probably not even written by someone who's ever worked at Mozilla. They're in front of us because Disney sends armies of marketeers, each with wheelbarrows of money, to promote each of their movies. Everyone knows that. But it's still embarrassing to see.

I feel even worse about this than I would if they had a big Facebook ad up. Say what you will about the likes of Meta, but Disney is some sort of ancient Lovecraftian horror manifested in corporate form.

Re: Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

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Post by dang »

jklm wrote: post #31
dang wrote: post #28

The submitted title ("Mozilla Now Hitting Us with Full Page Ads") broke the site guideline against editorializing. " Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. " - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playi…

Shouldn’t it be reverted to the original title? I remember that was the usual follow up.

I think we did that—what original title are you seeing?

Re: Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

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Post by windows2020 »

warning26 wrote: post #3

It's depressing how it's becoming almost impossible to avoid inbuilt advertising in web browsers. I still am annoyed at Google for adding ads onto the new tab page of Chrome. Yes, it's possible to use an extension to replace the new tab page, but I don't want a new new tab page, I want the stock one without ads.

This is why my new homepage is about:blank.

Re: Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

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Post by iamevn »

I updated my browser and when it finished I was greeted by this ad. Now I'm figuring out how to disable notifications that an update is available and prevent checking for them entirely so that I don't get shown an ad because I made the mistake of updating a piece of software.

Doesn't this sort of endorsement require disclosure? Not a lawyer but I would expect there to be something marking the content of the page as an advertisement. Some cursory browsing of what looks like relevant FTC pages (I and Mozilla are both American) seems to support this[1].

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...

Re: Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

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Post by jklm »

dang wrote: post #33
jklm wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shouldn’t it be reverted to the original title? I remember that was the usual follow up.

I think we did that—what original title are you seeing?

Odd - guessing there was some client-side caching at play in my HN reader app.

Re: Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

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Post by Khaine »

Mozilla is clearly circling the drain, as stunts like this show they are desperate for cash. Worse, stunts like this drive away the core users who love and promote Firefox.

The world will be a lot poorer when Firefox light is extinguished, which seems all but inevitable, unless Mozilla can get back to delighting users instead of abusing them.

Re: Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

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Post by plinkplink »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #13
plinkplink wrote: post #2

I put enormous effort into blocking as much advertising and marketing from my life as is humanly possible. I have written my own browser plugins and scripts, I have created network-wide blockers, I do not listen to the radio, I do not watch television, I do not look at billboards. I use Firefox to protect my privacy from advertisers and to block ads. So you may be able to imaging my rage when Firefox updated and auto…

Can you open that page, hit F12 and look for the trackers, analytic scripts etc? I hate this "We forced you to update, also we are the privacy, also we absolutely can fingerprint you because we forced you to see this page you didn't asked to look".

Absolutely infuriating.
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