> It was pulled yesterday after the backlash The fact that it took a backlash to pull something that Mozilla engineers built and deployed is the worrisome elem

> It was pulled yesterday after the backlash The fact that it took a backlash to pull something that Mozilla engineers built and deployed is the worrisome element that the post and many people discussed. > This event tells us that “Firefox studies” into a backdoor for advertisements, and I will never trust it again. But it doesn’t matter - you’re going to re-enable it on the next update. You know what that means? I will never trust Firefox again. That's the real problem. There's already a strong negative taste after incidents like https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504 https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504 > Excited to share the launch of @mozilla @firefox Tiles program, the first of our user-enhancing programs The default assumption that Mozilla is "one of the good guys" may have been there years ago, but in 2017 after many stumbles people are calling Mozilla's actions into question. The impression Mozilla's actions left upon 'sir_cmpwn wasn't based on an overnight reaction -- it was years of questionable actions. Trust is incredibly hard to earn, but very easy to lose