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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The worst thing about this statement is claiming the purpose of the extension was to delight firefox users. We aren't idiots. The purpose was to makr advertising money, at our expense, by shoving an unwanted ad in one of our most fundamental tools. Don't care about the rest.
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