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Re:You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more by geofft on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:32AM (#16656356)
This is, of course, the danger with running a project in public: you don't get to have a private discussion about whether a certain thing is a good idea, and you certainly don't get to have a private discussion about how to phrase it. Views of some individual proposing a thing get attributed to the organization.

I can think of no better way to encourage closed development processes than to get upset at a "statement by a Mozilla person" and use it as a reason to write off the entire project. You have no idea what Google is saying about your privacy behind closed doors.

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Re:You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more by mandelbulb on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:55AM (#16657533)
You're giving Mozilla a bit too much due. This was not just a statement or suggestion but an announcement for the next Monday.

With an internal policy that all opt-out proposals requiring the transfer of personalized data must be discussed with the rest of the team (incl. PR) and publicly, the post would have sounded quite differently.

By the way, in less than three hours, there will be an AMA on /r/firefox with the Project Manager of the User Advocacy team at Mozilla:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/84xe7m/well_be_hos...

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Re:You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more by geofft on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:12PM (#16660333)
Sure - but my reading of the article wasn't that it was so much objecting to the announcement but to the follow-up statement that Nightly users are implicitly opting in to a different privacy profile. That's the sort of statement I would easily see myself making to my team's private mailing list, and getting edited significantly before it goes into a public FAQ. I would expect that someone launching a similar experiment at Chrome/Edge/Safari/etc. would make a similar announcement, and then respond to internal feedback internally.
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Re:You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more by yati on Saturday March 24, 2018 @05:55AM (#16665785)
Link to that AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/86lqx9/hi_rfirefox...
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Re:You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more by thegeomaster on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:04AM (#16657590)
FWIW, Chromium is also also developed in such a way that at least commits, code reviews, and discussions on issues are visible on the bug tracker.
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