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the difference may not matter to you but it's not an ad because it's not a paid placement. no personal info is shared up front either. obviously you'd share in
by clairity 8y ago
the difference may not matter to you but it's not an ad because it's not a paid placement. no personal info is shared up front either.
obviously you'd share info once you click on it. i don't like ads either, but this seems better than the standard track-you-out-the-wazoo ad.
- jchw 8y agoWhich definition of ad requires it to be a paid placement? As far as I understand it the word advertisement is a pretty broad term. You could advertise for someone for free, perhaps because you have an existing relationship, or perhaps you could advertise for something other than monetary payment. It's an advertisement. Worse, it's an advertisement, for a commercial service, in a place that I didn't want it to be. The last place I wanted something like that to be, really.
- clairity 8y agowe can debate the semantics but i don't think it's a stretch to consider monetary exchange as a feature of advertising (perhaps a more narrow version of your general exchange of value definition). with that said, another commenter noted that this could be paid per action after the fact (CPA), so it could very well be called an ad by any definition. i agree that we shouldn't place ads everywhere, especially in "safe" places. but i'm also concerned with the viability and longevity of firefox.
- darkpuma 8y ago> the difference may not matter to you but it's not an ad because it's not a paid placement. Why should that matter? It makes not a lick of difference to me whether they got paid for it or not.