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Mozilla silently injecting ads into the content of websites through the browser is unacceptable. Full stop. This is the same type of scummy shit that ISPs have
by hellcow 9y ago
Mozilla silently injecting ads into the content of websites through the browser is unacceptable. Full stop.
This is the same type of scummy shit that ISPs have been pulling for years. But unlike ISPs, there's competition in the browser space. Mozilla must hold themselves to a higher standard if they want to survive.
- sfink 9y agoThe article was misleading here. Zero people unexpectedly had content change as a result of this. The only way that could happen is if you edit an undocumented config option. That is not what the controversy is about. It's about Firefox adding an addon with a name that sounded suspicious to many, and whose purpose was marketing-related and did not provide any functionality benefit to the user. Present or not, enabled or not, it didn't actually do anything without explicit user action. But that's not the point, for people whom this bothered.