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Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode
CWmike writes "Mozilla will respond to Google's Chrome and Microsoft's IE8 with its own private-browsing, or 'porn' mode in Firefox, according to notes posted on its Web site, and is on track to deliver one in 3.1, the version that will likely go beta next month."
Ok, settle down for a second and catch your breath. Good.
Why should he? Why on earth should marketers have a soapbox, millions of hours of soapbox, and nobody else? Most marketers are an invasive bunch of pricks that have basically destroyed broadcast television (the net value of TV programs to the viewer is zero because of advertising) and are trying to do the same to the web, video on demand and pretty much every other media. Modern mass marketing has become a costly arms race to get mind share where everybody loses except the marketing parasites.
showing you products that you probably aren't interested in.
Well, duh. The vast majority of people have no interest in your so-called "targeted" ad's either so your argument is BS. I don't think I've seen a useful "targeted" ad in years. Marketers can be willfully ignorant about their "targeting" when it suits them.
In essence, I think it's an unfair assertion that marketers are, as you say, "relentless, completely amoral and without any scruple whatsoever."
Marketers will do anything legal that makes money. Whether it's worthwhile for the customer is almost irrelevant. That's a pretty good definition of amorality.
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Some people believe with great fervor preposterous things that just happen to coincide with their self-interest.
-- Judge Frank Easterbrook, Coleman v. CIR (7th Cir 1986) 791 F2d 68 at 69 [and quoted in several subsequent court decisions]
Don't want people to see you are surfing porn, then stop surfing porn!
People nowadays are really overboard with "Firefox killed my firstborn" comments.
In other news, art thiefs complaining about better security at musea.
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