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Halfway through reading this, the site suddenly covered half the screen with a "donate to Mozilla" banner. The case for "reshaping the economics of the web" wou
by jsnell 7y ago
Halfway through reading this, the site suddenly covered half the screen with a "donate to Mozilla" banner. The case for "reshaping the economics of the web" would have been a bit more compelling without that...
(My problem isn't about asking for donations. It's about asking for them in a particularly user-hostile way. If the call to action at the bottom isn't enough, work it into the text.)
- sp332 7y agoSuper ironic too, considering they are working on blocking in-page JS popups like this and there's an addon to report them. https://github.com/ehsan/popup-reporter https://github.com/ehsan/popup-reporter
- carapace 7y agoAlso ironic asking for donations on a post about giving away $100,000,000.
- reubenmorais 7y agoThe funding comes from Coil.
- Jaygles 7y agoIts sort of fitting though. Obtrusive popups like that are prevalent because, unfortunately, they work better than anything else. If something less obtrusive worked, then this particular grant would not be needed. Essentially Mozilla is offering people money to find a way to make that banner unnecessary.
- saurik 7y agoI dunno, I could see that as being the most effective thing possible: I mean, if Mozilla wasn't feeling the need to do that, the problem might already have been solved.
- crispinb 7y agoI instantly put a permanent block on any site that does this, and never visit it again. So that's Mozilla done for me.
- yoz-y 7y agoI find this weird. I believe most people who donate to mozilla want to do it to keep the lights on for the browser development. Now they are simultaneously asking for donations and giving 100 mil away. Non profits donating money to other causes seems wrong to me, I think it would be better if they offered an option Humble Bundle-style to split the money and let the donors choose
- Vinnl 7y ago> Funded and led by Coil