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We were told at the plenary #yallhands session that there was going to be a promotion with , and that there'd be "special content in firefox only." At the time, I thought that was a pretty good thing; people love the show, it's on-topic, etc.
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I know that I thought, and I am pretty sure others did too, that it'd be some sort of UA sniffing thing. Seems fine, whatever.
But instead, it's this.
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How can we claim to be pro-privacy while surreptitiously installing software on people's computers?
More importantly, how did management not see this as a problem?
After the #yallhands plenary, I actually felt better about management and 's direction than I have in a while. Very good feels!
But now, I'm not so sure. It should have been *obvious* that this is not okay.
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Compare my blog post earlier in the week with this: words.steveklabnik.com/user-agent-moz
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How can we claim to advocate for our users while violating their consent? And over something so trivial?
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We’ve finally been giving favorable press thanks to the wonderful work on Quantum. That all feels squandered now.
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Can’t wait for the press to open Hacker News and see this and run with it. If I was a reporter, I would.
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Who at okayed this? Why did they? I have no idea. I’m also honestly not very plugged in internally but haven’t even seen any other employees raising this issue internally either.
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Even if we analyze this from a business/marketing perspective, this makes no sense. ’s advantage is being “outside” of Silicon Valley, culturally speaking. SV is all in on surveillance capitalism. My understanding is that we’re against that.
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We need our users to trust that we are honestly advocating in their best interests. This is completely counter to that.
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I could make more money working elsewhere. I don’t because I believe in ’s stated mission. It’s one of the last places in tech that I can work for that’s got a valued-based mission.
How does this align with our values?
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In some ways it's *worse* that it does nothing. Or, that if you turn it on, it does something trivial.
We squandered users' trust for so, so little.
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if you're just noticing this now, there's a *lot* more explanation as to what this thing is. If you looked at it previously, it looked like this
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As a non-Mozilla-employee Mozilla contributor, It's rather frustrating that these comments can exist at all.
Things like the "Studies" infrastructure should be managed by a community governance structure, not Mozilla Corp corporate hierarchy.
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In the end, one thing I'm glad about is that I feel like I can tweet about this at all; openness doesn't mean open only when things are good.
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