Re: [projectvrm] If ads are inevitable (Mozilla)

[Identity Coach < >]

To put a finer point on this, Mozilla can track (user-side?) the sites I visit more than, say, 3 times. Each of those sites probably have ads on them, so there's a higher than average possibility that I'll be interested in some of those ads, especially if an ad related company turns up on more than one site. That might be a tile in my newsertainment feed.

While I think Goog could also do this well (and likely will, because Google Surveillance is everywhere), everything they touch has cooties and so less trusted value. Tracking (and apparently getting it wrong as often as not) is in their DNA. I would turn tiles off in Chrome, no question.

So Mozillians, what do you say? Can this be done?

  j.

On 9/14/15 3:10 PM, Identity Coach wrote:

" type="cite"> Ran across one of many articles about Mozilla implementing ads in the Firefox tiles:

Mozilla Gets Its First Partners for Ads in Firefox
http://news.softpedia.com/news/mozilla-gets-its-first-partners-for-ads-in-firefox-491609.shtml

and found myself wondering if they could and why they wouldn't give us a choice of which "advertising feeds" we might "subscribe" to. Yeah I can turn off the tiles (and many will), but if we treat ads more like a newsertainment feed, then we can find the good agencies, direct advertisers, et al. and give voice to choice. I might actually like certain ads if they were relevant to my particular and identifiable musements and interests.

A friend of mine loves TV ads and noted that "if a burger ad is good enough to make me want to get up and eat one, it has succeeded." Similarly, if there's an ad that a) I'd watch b) without cringing, it worked. If everyone hates ads because they all suck and there's no choice, Mozilla's future is in jeopardy and we all lose.

  j.