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Did Firefox perhaps get screen time in Mr. Robot?
by suby 9y ago
Did Firefox perhaps get screen time in Mr. Robot?
- jacquesm 9y agoWho cares if it did?
- suby 9y agoIt's just bizarre, is all. Especially considering that they claim they did not get paid for Looking Glass.
- detaro 9y agoI assume the idea of the ARG was that it promotes Firefox to viewers of the show as much as the other way around.
- weaksauce 9y agoit promotes firefox to viewers of the show about online privacy... the viewers are probably more receptive than most to changing over to a more privacy oriented browser.
- knaik94 9y agoFirefox ads run a lot during the show. And before the show, they have a mini blurb saying "this week sponsored by firefox"
- justinclift 9y agoAhhh, so there was an exchange of benefits after all. Their "an unpaid collaboration" phrase is an attempt to spin it as if there wasn't. Doesn't seem like honest wording in their apology then. :(
- Yoric 9y agoI read it as "nobody paid Mozilla". Did you understand something else?
- justinclift 9y agoYeah, it can be interpreted in a few different ways. Sometimes places say "we weren't paid anything" in an attempt to pretend it was out of the goodness of their hearts (or similar)... when in fact they were receiving benefits of some other kind. Just not directly money. Note - Corruption often seems to work like this too, as "payment in services" (eg kickbacks, etc) instead of money can be harder to track. So, when places say they did something and didn't get paid for it... I also (personally) find it's best to double check if they received services/benefits instead which they'd not mentioning. Just in case. It seems like that's what's happening here too.
- Yoric 9y agoThe way I read the blog entry is that yes, it was an exchange. I don't feel that it is being spinned, but YMMV.
- r3bl 9y agoIt gets a lot of screen time. I believe there was one scene in which Tor was used as a browser. The main characters all use Firefox on a number of occasions, in all three seasons.