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What does this piece of bullshit really mean? Were they unable to sell the ads effectively? Was nobody clicking on them? Was the income not significant enough?
by devit 11y ago
What does this piece of bullshit really mean?
Were they unable to sell the ads effectively? Was nobody clicking on them? Was the income not significant enough? Did they decide that it wasn't a good idea to have ads in Firefox? Did they find a better way to monetize the browser?
Anyway, the ridiculous content-free way this post is written does unfortunately not inspire confidence in Mozilla.
- e15ctr0n 11y agoAgree. The corporate bullshit jargon is strong with this one. Not surprising when the CEO himself is a purely marketing man. People have even made games like Bullshit Bingo based on corporate-speak in meeting rooms. http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit/ http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit/
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- JoshTriplett 11y agoIt certainly doesn't help to have a pile of people unceasingly seeking every opportunity to snark about this on every article about Mozilla and Firefox.
- yuhong 11y agoMy mistake. I thought this was by the CEO. It is not.
- potch 11y agoWe put ads that didn't require an extensive tracking network in the new tab page of Firefox. We were able to make some money on them and show how to do ads respectfully. Even so, it was decided to remove them from Firefox as they didn't provide enough value to the user.
- potch 11y agoWhere the jargon "value to the user" means being things the user was interested in clicking.
- rlpb 11y agoThe only part of your answer that actually answered the question was "didn't provide enough value to the user". That is effectively all you said, which is about as unhelpful for others to understand as the original article. What does "value to the user" mean? What exactly were your goals for "value to the user" before you released the feature? How did you measure it? And how did you fall short of these goals?
- potch 11y agosee literally the comment below this.
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- yuhong 11y agoThinking about it, it reminds me of this: https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3cudi0/resignation_thank_you/csz9j3q?context=3 https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3cudi0/resignation_tha...
- nnethercote 11y ago> What does this piece of bullshit really mean? Mozilla briefly dabbled with advertising on the new tab page. That's now stopping. Like the article says: "We have therefore made the decision to stop advertising in Firefox."