Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser

Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by ivraatiems on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:22PM (#7221303)

This seems like a massive amount of hypocrisy on the part of Mozilla. "We don't want you to ever have to see ads in your browser -- except our ads!"

I had an angry knee-jerk reaction to this, and while in practice it probably won't be annoying, it's a step in the complete wrong direction.

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by abrowne on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:30PM (#7221349)

    "We don't want you to ever have to see ads in your browser -- except our ads!"

When has Mozilla said/done anything like this? It's not like they ship Adblock Plus, and supporting Do Not Track isn't anti-ad, it's just anti-tracking.

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by ivraatiems on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:53PM (#7221501)

If you're blocking third-party ad cookies by default, and at the same time supplying your ads, that seems pretty clear to me. (1)

(1) http://adage.com/article/digital/iab-fight-mozilla-privacy-m...

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by chc on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:34PM (#7221379)

What is the right direction for an organization like Mozilla that needs to keep its lights on and pay a sizeable host of highly skilled developers?

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by ivraatiems on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:52PM (#7221492)

Well, what are they doing now? Obviously it's been successful in keeping them open.

Is there evidence they are actually in financial trouble and need this help?

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by chc on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @07:52PM (#7221746)

What they're doing now is taking money from a large multinational advertising corporation that is also a direct competitor in the browser business. So Mozilla is already ad-supported, just at one level of indirection, with less control over how the ads are able to invade your privacy, and subject to the whims of a hostile party.

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by sheetjs on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:27PM (#7221332)

I switched to SRWare Iron (https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php) a long time ago and never looked back.

EDIT: guess I shouldn't be surprised that proposing a browser that actually cares about privacy and security would be downvoted

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