On 14 February 2014 06:08, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On 02/13/2014 07:50 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
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> Le Jeu 13 février 2014 19:40, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
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>> Hi
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>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>>> A party who is molesting me with ads and tries to spy on me, hardly is
>>> my
>>> friend.
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>> That certainly goes way too far. We have assurance from Mozilla that
>> there
>> is no spying or tracking going on here
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> How can they give any assurance? Unless the targets of those ads are
> hosted by mozilla, all it takes to track people is for one of the
> advertisers to read its server logs.
Exactly.
Beside this, IMO, the FLOSS community needs to set a non-misunderstandable
sign that Ads are not welcome.
Even the Fedora home page has a hosting sponsor link (though Gnome and
FSF don't). I think there's quite a lot of premature overreaction
going on here. Provided it's been done in a secure manner this is
basically just providing a set of bookmarks, which will actually
disappear once you start browsing the web. Mozilla is not Shazam,
they're still controlled by a NPO, they've been pushing free software
and open standards for over a decade. If they can find a way to get
continued funding and less reliance on Google without compromising
their principles that's a good thing (hmm, an open source organisation
with one major commercial sponsor, sounds familiar).
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk