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Let's not forget that the whole idea of a FOSS company making it in the marketplace is sort of squaring a circle. It's amazing that we got this far. Unless we h
by orblivion 9y ago
Let's not forget that the whole idea of a FOSS company making it in the marketplace is sort of squaring a circle. It's amazing that we got this far. Unless we have better ideas, we should expect more things like this.
I personally think we should all try to come up with better ideas. In the mean time, we should have some tolerance for things like the privacy respecting advertising scheme they came up with. I agree that this Mr. Robot thing crosses some sort of line. But I don't think our response should look anything like "How dare you try to make money!" lest our critique be useless.
- dhimes 9y agoI think your response is reasonable. People will be happy to play games with their browsers as long as they trust the game and have control over when to play and not. Maybe firefox becomes the "fun" browser and we end up with a web version of a pokemon go type game. (Would be cool, huh? Websites would "trend" as people flocked to find $pattern and shared their discoveries.) Or some other game. Or a game-of-the-week, that advertisers can sponsor. But transparency, opt-in, and ease of use are all key to this working.
- rihegher 9y agoI'd like to have the option to pay for getting a browser without unwantedwares guarantied, let say a 5$ per month subscription. Not sure they would be enough people that would pay though.
- ksk 9y agoAlso the article itself is quite poalarising. Its basically suggesting that there is zero room for disagreement over a decision. And that you either agree or you're an idiot who should be fired.