Firefox is on a slippery slope

Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by rifung on Sunday December 17, 2017 @12:13PM (#15946580)

> The difference between a Tesla easter egg (which are almost entirely regarded as delightful) and this easter egg is that this easter egg was poorly executed.

I don't own a Tesla but I assume a key difference is that the easter eggs exist solely to delight the user whereas this was more of a partnership designed to make Mozilla money.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by bholley on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:05PM (#15947363)

Per my comment above, there's a misunderstanding here. The goal was to delight Mr Robot viewers and turn them into Firefox users. This was about marketing, not revenue, and I believe no money changed hands.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by OnlyRepliesToBS on Sunday December 17, 2017 @07:13PM (#15948457)

"delight" viewers?

Hah, good one.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by bholley on Sunday December 17, 2017 @09:23PM (#15948954)

Using the rhetoric of the parent, in case that wasn't clear.

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