I do use a browser to have fun. I still don't want the browser having fun at my expense, and certainly not for advertising.

(the upsidedownternet is over 10 years old at this point - http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html is from at least 2006 - awkward out of touch big company advertising isn't fun)

That's why you'd want it as an add-on, as opposed to core browser code. It's reasonable for all the silly crap that no one wants to be in the add-on directory. It's not reasonable for them to push the add-on to people that didn't choose to install it. That's the part I'm upset about.

Did you read pass the first sentence?

He explains that including that addon for everyone by default is NOT OK. What he means by the first sentence is that using addon for easters eggs is OK (but users need to install it themselfs).

To be fair, Mozilla had a long history of easter eggs. So do other things that you'd want to take seriously (Tesla and Google for example). Easter eggs are a part of software culture whether you like it or not.

> How can we trust you guys to do the right thing from now on?

The same way you can continue to trust the GNU/Linux system which contains easter eggs.

Oh the same way I can trust Canonical to include advertisements in Ubuntu? ( https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2221490/eff-urges-... )

Easter-eggs, to me, means something like "press a key combination, get a list of developers" or "go through the levels in a fast time, unlock a secret level" or "on march 14th there's a message about Pi day". It doesn't mean "if you change xyz settings, we'll sell some control to your system to a third party for our profit".

This is an advertisement in the form of an easter egg, that’s not common and not OK

>>To be fair, Mozilla had a long history of easter eggs.

This is not an easter Egg, I wish people would stop calling it that.

This is a Paid Advertisement, injected with out my permission into my software. AKA Malware or Adware.

Companies pay thousands of dollars a year to prevent that type of software from being loaded on their system.

Firefox DOES NOT have a long history of being a distributor or malware or adware...

Easter Eggs are funny things that Dev put into code that make people chuckle but have no impact on the actual software

To call this a "Easter egg" is naive and ignorant. This is a Paid Promotional Advertisement of a Large Commercial project not an Easter egg

> The same way you can continue to trust the GNU/Linux system which contains easter eggs.

By which you mean, not at all, I assume.