No Surprises (2009)

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Re: No Surprises (2009)

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Post by brandonwamboldt » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 12:41 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #4

Does this mean they'll be rolling back the Pocket integration?

I doubt it, this blog post is 6 years old. Mozilla no longer have the same beliefs in this area, clearly. Just look at Pocket integration and the recent Yahoo! search engine change.

Re: No Surprises (2009)

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Post by jacquesm » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 12:45 PM UTC

bananaoomarang wrote: post #5

specto wrote: post #3

I guess this is a quip against Mozilla adding the 3rd party functionality?

Probably more thinking of Mozilla replacing default search with Yahoo, without asking the user.

It's stuff like this that has an indirect effect that is much more serious than the change itself.

Not all that long ago there was a thread here about 'why those bloody end users don't keep their systems up-to-date'. Well, there you have it: because they never just get the fixes, they also get all kinds of other junk rammed down their throats, if such an upgrade does not break their systems entirely. And so the end-users get wise and stop updating their systems, resulting in systems that are then wide open to malicious parties.

I feel that I'm pretty tech savvy and in spite of that I've got a hard time clicking the 'upgrade' button next to my browser for that exact reason, it's a toss-up if it will actually do something useful for me or if it will cause me no end of misery to try to restore the situation back to working after a failed update.

I'd need a couple of extra hands to count the number of times where an update to an otherwise perfectly functioning system caused it to break and in some cases that in turn led to a complete re-install.

In tech we even have a meme for that: "If it isn't obviously broken, don't fix it!".

Re: No Surprises (2009)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 12:51 PM UTC

brandonwamboldt wrote: post #7

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #4

Does this mean they'll be rolling back the Pocket integration?

I doubt it, this blog post is 6 years old. Mozilla no longer have the same beliefs in this area, clearly. Just look at Pocket integration and the recent Yahoo! search engine change.

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Re: No Surprises (2009)

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Post by LeoNatan25 » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 12:58 PM UTC

Is that a surprise in your pocket, or are you just happy to throw away my privacy?