On 11/18/2014 02:55 PM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 11:15 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: >>>> I'm talking about the "advertisement" part. Some people seem to be >>>> bothered by this alone. Tiles feature indeed promotes some websites, but >>>> we already do that. >>> >>> No, actually we don't. We promote websites because we honestly think >>> they're useful, not because we're paid to do so. >> >> That's irrelevant. Paid or not, promoting websites through tiles or >> gnome-shell is the same form of advertisement. > > Money is not irrelevant. Paid advertising is how we wound up with > pop-ups, hover ads, etc. The question is whether or not we can trust > Mozilla to steer clear of such things. So far there seems to be no > reason to trust Mozilla -- the ads are opt-out, they only sometimes > respect DNT, and they are being pushed despite the backlash from > Mozilla's community. This is a moral judgment, so it's irrelevant for making a policy decision (from Fedora's point of view). Money or not, we need a consistent policy on advertisements for all upstream.
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