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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by jasonlotito on Sunday December 17, 2017 @04:22AM (#15944956)
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.

Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by jodrellblank on Sunday December 17, 2017 @06:19AM (#15945290)
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".

Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by theclaw on Sunday December 17, 2017 @05:09AM (#15945103)
This is an advertisement in the form of an easter egg, that’s not common and not OK
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by syshum on Sunday December 17, 2017 @07:06AM (#15945427)
>>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

Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by Endy on Sunday December 17, 2017 @06:47AM (#15945366)
> 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.