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If they didn't get paid, why on earth did they do it?
by bluetwo 9y ago
If they didn't get paid, why on earth did they do it?
- bugmen0t 9y agoSomeone actually that it was fun and valuable. Shocking, I know.
- paulryanrogers 9y ago^thought
- QAPereo 9y agoOf all possible explanations, that is the one I suspect is most divorced from reality.
- 794CD01 9y agoThey assumed their user base has dwindled to only the kind of anticorporate hacker wannabes that watch Mr. Robot.
- Swizec 9y agofor the lulz? Hackers gonna hack. In the “let’s build cool stuff because we can” way.
- teilo 9y agoNot all incentives are direct financial incentives. It's free marketing. It increases market penetration. It encourages people who only use Chrome to try Firefox. It was absolutely the wrong thing to do, but it's not like they stood nothing to gain from it.
- emveeoh 9y agoIt seems they wanted press. Well, they got it...
- micro-ram 9y agoand lost a lot of trust as a result.
- bigleagueposter 9y agobribery
- mintplant 9y agoPeople who wanted to solve the Mr. Robot ARG/puzzle had to download Firefox to complete the part of it the add-on enabled.
- ben174 9y agoI think it was the opposite of paid. They wanted to draw the Mr. Robot crowd to Firefox.