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Has Mozilla Lost Its Values?

5 points by qdot76367 13y ago

nileshtrivedi 13y ago
Cry me a river. > All-or-nothing proclamations They are merely changing the default. Sites can always request users to enable it. How is it all or nothing? > Third-party cookies are an essential part of the Internet content supply chain Citation needed. > Mozilla’s active, prominent promotion of Adblock Plus suggests a value system hostile to advertising and the businesses and people dependent on it. Active? Prominent? It really is the most popular add-on. Why do you expect mozilla to favor you against the express will of their users? > Last July, for example, she said, “Whatever standard the W3C produces will put a number of third parties out of business, but that is okay because that will be a good day for privacy.” I see nothing wrong with that. Businesses don't have a right of survival. Users do have a right to privacy. > Mozilla or the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, which appear to be those of elitist organizations that hide under the shield of populism to make value judgments about who is worthy of earning a living in the digital age. That's how you want them to look like. It's not about your right to make money. It's about users' default expectation of not being tracked. I couldn't read the rest of the post considering such fundamental disagreements.
kapilkaisare 13y ago
> Third-party cookies are an essential part of the Internet content supply chain That's funny. Almost hilarious. I use AdBlock Plus all the time and have not noticed anything wrong with my content supply.
mikevm 13y ago
I've been using an ad blocker for years. Sometimes when it has a false positive I have to disable it and refresh the page to see what went wrong. It is during these brief moments that I realize how much I would've hated the web if it wasn't for the ad blocker. Distracting, bandwidth gobbling and CPU consuming ads. Not to mention annoying video ads on various sites (such as YouTube). Thank Jebus for AdMuncher! Statistics for Ad Muncher v4.93.33707/4774 Adverts removed: 2,070,652 Bandwidth saved: 60,959 MB Counter started: March 26, 2010

5 points by qdot76367 13y ago

Cry me a river. > All-or-nothing proclamations They are merely changing the default. Sites can always request users to enable it. How is it all or nothing? > Third-party cookies are an essential part of the Internet content supply chain Citation needed. > Mozilla’s active, prominent promotion of Adblock Plus suggests a value system hostile to advertising and the businesses and people dependent on it. Active? Prominent? It really is the most popular add-on. Why do you expect mozilla to favor you against the express will of their users? > Last July, for example, she said, “Whatever standard the W3C produces will put a number of third parties out of business, but that is okay because that will be a good day for privacy.” I see nothing wrong with that. Businesses don't have a right of survival. Users do have a right to privacy. > Mozilla or the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, which appear to be those of elitist organizations that hide under the shield of populism to make value judgments about who is worthy of earning a living in the digital age. That's how you want them to look like. It's not about your right to make money. It's about users' default expectation of not being tracked. I couldn't read the rest of the post considering such fundamental disagreements.

kapilkaisare 13y ago

> Third-party cookies are an essential part of the Internet content supply chain That's funny. Almost hilarious. I use AdBlock Plus all the time and have not noticed anything wrong with my content supply.

mikevm 13y ago

I've been using an ad blocker for years. Sometimes when it has a false positive I have to disable it and refresh the page to see what went wrong. It is during these brief moments that I realize how much I would've hated the web if it wasn't for the ad blocker. Distracting, bandwidth gobbling and CPU consuming ads. Not to mention annoying video ads on various sites (such as YouTube). Thank Jebus for AdMuncher! Statistics for Ad Muncher v4.93.33707/4774 Adverts removed: 2,070,652 Bandwidth saved: 60,959 MB Counter started: March 26, 2010