[JadeNB]

> Privacy-friendly ads are a reasonable way for Mozilla to survive long-term -- if they are indeed privacy-friendly.

At some level, trusting that privacy-friendly advertising through Firefox actually respects privacy is going to have to involve trusting Mozilla. Mozilla seems to have gone out of its way over the years to erode user trust, and this is just one more step down that road. As the author says, if Firefox is even sneakier about this than Chrome, what scope is there for trust?

[mulmen]

I don't think Mozilla is going to pull a Google and deliberately choose to become evil. Mozilla simply doesn't have (or want?) the resources to hire competent product people (if such a thing even exists) to manage features and marketing. This is the problem with running software as a company instead of an open project where the product is the end rather than a means to profit.