Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:45AM
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If that's the case, this is already grounds for writing Mozilla off. Ad companies are what they are. But if Mozilla was not able to find a partner who's able to tolerate honesty, and decided to compromise instead, what else they're going to compromise on when their new "trusted partners" ask nicely?
I'm no expert, but from what I've heard the reasoning is that ad companies don't like it when you do that and won't want to work with you. They'd rather FF says "we love these guys and they just happen to be handing us bags of money" rather than "look, we dont like this anymore than you do but we need the cash".
Not excusing it, and I could well be wrong (there could also be a way of saying it that satisfies both parties), but thats my understanding of the rationale