Hi Benjamin,
I really appreciate your frank response; thank you for that.
There's a small thing I want to point out, though. The Pocket removal Bugzilla
issue was closed saying that Governance and Input ("submit feedback") are the
proper places to give feedback on these decisions.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172126#c45
On Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:10:05 UTC+2, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> This isn’t really a governance issue although governance does get
> improperly used for complaints like this often.
>
> Yes this is a privacy and ethical issue and it appears to go against the
> Mozilla manifesto and it’s unlikely Chrome Team would ever make such a
> mistake. It was disappointing to see Jascha Kayla’s-Wolff’s response to the
> media it was tone deaf and unapologetic.
>
> That said this is still not the appropriate place to get any resolution
> instead it would be more effective to open a bug with legal team to discuss
> those privacy and user choice implications.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:35 PM Jean-Bernard Marcon via governance <
> governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am surprised nobody raised the issue already (maybe I missed the right
> > channel)
> >
> > Users are complaining about last releases of Firefox installing an addon
> > without their consent (optin is by default).
> >
> > This is definitely NOT in line with Mozilla values as stated in manifesto
> > and various statements Mozilla used to reaffirm.
> >
> > (I would not even mention the sheer stupidity to believe that promoting Mr
> > Robot can be a good idea because it is so cool, though the vast majority of
> > users in the world don't give a f*ck about it)
> >
> > It is already too late to apologize for this very misguided piece of
> > marketing, the traction gained by Firefox with fx57 version is currently
> > spoiled for free and open source communities (Oh no,Mozilla did it again,
> > they cannot be trusted)
> >
> > Please "governance" do something and stop that.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > - an old Mozillian contributor
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> >
> --
> Benjamin Kerensa
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