Re: [projectvrm] Mozilla ads in the browser -- is that VRM in wolves' clothing?

[Don Marti < >]

But Mozilla doesn't come with any computers.  All of
the people who have it have chosen to install it.

If you're going to make the move to install Firefox,
well...

"85% of Firefox 4 users have chosen to install an
add-on...This number doesn’t include Personas,
and even excludes popular add-ons bundled with other
software that the user hasn’t actively agreed
to install."
  https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/06/21/firefox-4-add-on-users/

So Firefox users can add Disconnect...

  https://disconnect.me/

...which they will need until Firefox gets its act
together on third-party tracking anyway.

Don

begin Kaliya Identity Woman quotation of Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:54:39PM 
-0800:
> 
> yep Mozilla is totally jumping the shark. 
> 
>  
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Johannes Ernst 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> 
> > Came across this through a Tweet that sounded rather negative: 
> > "Somehow, I don't think this is going to be much appreciated by Mozilla 
> > fans."
> > 
> > But perhaps this is actually more of a VRM thing than it might look like 
> > if it is something that the user can change / configure:
> > 
> > http://adage.com/article/special-report-iab-annual-meeting/mozilla-sell-ads-firefox/291641/
> > https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publisher-transformation-with-users-at-the-center/
> > 
> > I guess I can't tell ...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Johannes.
> 

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Don Marti                    
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