A few months ago Darren posted about some experiments we wanted to do with the new tab page. It didn't go over well.
Of course it didn't go over well. FOSS is supposed to be what the users want the software to be, not what a company wants the software to be. The fact that Mozilla has publicly came out saying "it didn't go over well", just shows that they are another untrustworthy and greedy company hiding behind the benevolent front of an open source project. Do not be fooled. It's unfortunate that so many people cannot think for themselves and have to be told what things mean and why things are happening, but fortunately in this case enough people whose brains are functioning correctly actually responded and said "no".
A lot of our community found the language hard to decipher, and worried that we were going to turn Firefox into a mess of logos sold to the highest bidder; without user control, without user benefit.
Of course they found it hard to decipher; there are a multitude of not-so-intelligent people walking this earth and who use the Firefox browser that need to be protected by people who are smarter than them. That is how and why tyrannical governments in the United States don't form, and why we have the second amendment -- it isn't there for duck hunting. Mozilla would go to any extent to put as many ads and spy features in Firefox as people would put up with. When the people fight back, Mozilla's efforts to capitalize by means of corporate greed fail.
That's not going to happen. That's not who we are at Mozilla.
Mr. Nightingale, now you are flat out lying. First, let me reword that for you: "that's not going to happen now that we've come under scrutiny". And as far as saying "that's not who we are at Mozilla", this is really a laughable statement. It's just PR bullshit, and you have came up with a pile of lies in attempts to dissuade buffoons. Well let me tell you: you do not fool me, nor does your company.
But we will experiment. In the coming weeks, we'll be landing tests on our pre-release channels to see whether we can make things like the new tab page more useful, particularly for fresh installs of Firefox, where we don't yet have any recommendations to make from your history.
Translation: In the coming weeks, we're going to see whether or not we can mind fuck our users some more, to shove ads down their throat through other means since our last attempt failed. Even though "we" know that "we" don't need to make your tab page more useful, our executives want bigger houses and new BMW's and Mercedes-Benz vehicles, as the new models have features that we need to survive.
We'll test a mix of our own sites and other useful sites on the Web. We'll mess with the layout. These tests are purely to understand what our users find helpful and what our users ignore or disable - these tests are not about revenue and none will be collected. Sponsorship would be the next stage once we are confident that we can deliver user value.
Translation: The paragraph that I wrote here is intentionally convoluted and not to the point because I am a lying psychopath. We'll mess with your mind as we mess with the layout. These tests are purely a test to understand how we can mind fuck our users and be helpful to ourselves, and see what they will put up with. We know many people are really stupid and/or sometimes just too busy to discern their head from their ass, and we can surreptitiously do things to people because we want to keep our lavish lifestyle going.
In the sentence: "these tests are not about revenue and none will be collected", you have to keep in mind how psychopaths function. What we have here is a lie and the truth in the same sentence. The lie is that it's not about revenue, and the truth is that none will be collected. If we really further analyze it, he means that no revenue will be collected at this time, until we see what we can get away with.
We'll experiment on Firefox across platforms, and we'll talk about what we learn before anything ships to our release users. And we'll keep listening for feedback and suggestions to make this work better for you. Because that's who we are at Mozilla.
Johnathan Nightingale
VP Firefox
Here, Mr. Nightingale is just repeating himself because he really doesn't know how to communicate his lies efficiently to the public. That's the thing about lying psychopaths -- they're not that hard to detect, but many people don't detect them. What he's saying, again, is that they are testing the waters to see what they can get away with and what users will put up with. He's saying: "we're seeing how far was can mind fuck you using mind bending methods".
You know what, Mr. Nightingale, I have one thing to say to you: Go to hell.
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