Mozilla clarifies, defends Firefox ad position

ZD Net ^ | 14 February 2014 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

[zeugma]

 

In the 1970s, TV programs had typically 48 minutes of content.

Now, TV programs have between 38 and 42 minutes of content.

Half-hour TV programs have comparable reductions in content.

You appear to suffer from the common misconception that most people have. You have it exactly reversed. The commercials are the content. The shows themselves are nothing but a vehicle to bring the ads to you.

 

[TomGuy]

You appear to suffer from the common misconception

No, not really. I have posted many times that TV programs are just filler between commercial breaks.

Hmmm. That even applies to radio talkies.

[ShadowAce]

That even applies to radio talkies.

I refuse to listen to Rush, Hannity, Levin, or Berry any more because all they do is talk for 3 minutes, then go to "a hard break." They use that excuse because it deflects blame from them.

[GeronL]

Yes. I got it on Facebook when all sorts of leftist causes were advertised on the FB wall instead of “friends” posts.

I turned on Ad Blocker Plus and a couple of other things and those ads are gone.

[GeronL]

I haven’t seen any ads on Firefox yet

[GeronL]

So this idiot broad has killed the goose that lays the golden eggs

Yep. Since it is open source, someone will take the code and erase the ads and call it something else.

[GeronL]

Not necessarily free. But if they start throwing ads in peoples faces and there is an alternative, it is a stupid business model. Like on Facebook, half the posts were ads for leftist congressional candidates and leftwing orgs. I am glad I got ad blocker.

[GeronL]

I sometimes use a stripped down, Linux version of Chrome called Chromium.

[csvset]

NoScript is very nice.

[ducttape45]

I know that if they start placing ads where I can't block them, I will probably switch browsers.

The thing is, what other browsers are out there that can match the perform that Mozilla once gave us?

[ShadowAce]

Good question. Time for some research, I guess.

[MortMan]

I despise the tiles, anyway. I hate having to delete multiple already-viewed entries just to keep a tidy window.

[ducttape45]

Yep, blast it all.

I once tried Maxthon but got overwhelmed with all the ads that it let through. It crashed a lot too. I removed it. I wouldn't recommend SeaMonkey because it you have to uninstall it (like I did) it messes up many file associations. Safari is "weird."

[ducttape45]

I tried to stay with FF15 but I found that many of my plugins wouldn’t work anymore. I use FF25 but that’s as far as I go. FF26 changed too many things and I refuse to upgrade any further.

[martin_fierro]

Yikes. Supercuts??

[GeronL]

Plenty of browsers out there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers

for the record I didn’t like Midori much