On 14 February 2014 06:08, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/13/2014 07:50 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> >> Le Jeu 13 février 2014 19:40, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> >>>> A party who is molesting me with ads and tries to spy on me, hardly is >>>> my >>>> friend. >>> >>> >>> >>> That certainly goes way too far. We have assurance from Mozilla that >>> there >>> is no spying or tracking going on here >> >> >> 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
