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It should be mentioned that Mozilla had once wrecked their reputation by allowing a corporate-supported study [1] (yeah, Mr. Robot one). It was a really bad PR
by lifthrasiir 8y ago
It should be mentioned that Mozilla had once wrecked their reputation by allowing a corporate-supported study [1] (yeah, Mr. Robot one). It was a really bad PR disaster for Mozilla, and I think Mozilla has at least learned their lesson by not abusing the studies system in such way (as far as I know).
[1] https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-...
- philipwhiuk 8y agoSo they'll put it directly in Normandy instead of wrecking Studies?
- lifthrasiir 8y agoNot sure, but Mozilla had taken another PR risk by sponsored contents to the Packet integration [1]. So we need to keep our eyes to Mozilla. On wrecking Normandy, you can actually see all enabled recipes [2] and nothing seems smoky. It even seems that the hotfix (id=721) was used to unbreak Office 365, supporting the positive uses of this system. But I strongly agree that there should be more approachable list of them. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/24/update-on-pocket-and-firefox-integration/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/24/update-on... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16229927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16229927) [2] https://normandy.cdn.mozilla.net/api/v1/recipe/ https://normandy.cdn.mozilla.net/api/v1/recipe/