When people talk about wanting Firefox to have an open structure that treats Mozilla and non-Mozilla people the same, they are talking about things like https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/issues/36 …. There is no good reason why "sideloading an ad to FF" needs to be a thing Mozilla Corp is able to do.
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What if it was part of a normal Firefox update? What I’m getting at is the mechanism for getting the code there is not important (except to nerds who care about these subtle distinctions).
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I don't appreciate the "nerds" bucketing and I think you're ignoring why people are upset. Firefox silently delivered an ad to people without talking to anyone. Lots of people use Firefox because they trust the org and its leadership.
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I'm not one of the people flipping tables and telling people to uninstall. But I am saying that it's a big red flag that the Mozilla Corp hierarchy was able to circumvent the Firefox project's leadership to silently deliver an ad. And using the SHIELD mechanism made it worse.
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