Re: [projectvrm] Welcoming Mozilla

[Katherine Warman Kern < >]

+10

Katherine Warman Kern
@comradity

> On Apr 14, 2014, at 12:48 AM, Don Marti 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> 
> begin Doc Searls quotation of Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:47:39PM -0400:
> 
>> I also closed the post with an invitation to come to IIW and think forward 
>> to new solutions that will beef up Mozilla's person-side (rather than just 
>> advertising-side) offerings. And I promised to make "How can we help 
>> Mozilla?" a topic there.
>> 
>> Thoughts welcome.
> 
> Just one.  Why lump all "advertising" together?
> You're making it overly dramatic and confusing the
> situation.  Most of advertising has interests that
> align with privacy, not against it.
> 
> Of the three kinds of advertising: directory/search,
> branding/signaling, and database/direct, a
> privacy-friendly browser is an unmitigated good
> thing for the first two, and only a problem for the
> last one.
> 
> So when Randall Rothenberg comes out for creepy
> tracking, he's only speaking for a fraction of the
> advertising business.  By some historical accident,
> IAB is really the ICDBMB (Internet Creepy Database
> Marketing Bureau) and the rest of advertising lacks
> a voice in this whole argument.
> 
> -- 
> Don Marti                    
> http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
> 
 
>