Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox

Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by e15ctr0n on Saturday December 05, 2015 @12:00AM (#10680946)

> Although the company emphasizes that Pocket and Telefonica didn’t pay for placement in the Firefox browser, Mozilla Corp. chief legal and business officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer told WIRED that Mozilla has revenue sharing arrangements with both companies.

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-we...

Can you explain what the revenue sharing agreement is, especially after so many Mozilla employees have vehemently denied that Mozilla got money from Pocket for the tie-up?

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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by rffn on Saturday December 05, 2015 @04:01AM (#10681347)

This would be outright stupid. While I do not want any default ties to external services like Pocket in the browser I for sure hope that such a data harvesting and customer acquisition effort at least yields money for Mozilla to further fund open source development.

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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by dao- on Saturday December 05, 2015 @07:15AM (#10681680)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681622

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