Monoculture ahoy!

Posted Dec 6, 2018 19:20 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Monoculture ahoy! by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Microsoft's Edge browser moving to Chromium

Mozilla needs to do some introspection (and firing) after its marketing department's latest brain damaged move this week, or we may end up on a one-browser web sooner rather than later.

Monoculture ahoy!

Posted Dec 6, 2018 23:51 UTC (Thu) by TheGopher (subscriber, #59256) [Link] (2 responses)

Could you elaborate? You made me curious.

Monoculture ahoy!

Posted Dec 7, 2018 7:11 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

They sent a spam email out directly to addresses people used for the browser-sync function, advertising some concert in the US. My honeypot address didn't receive it this time around, but I've heard other people who already clicked every opt-out weren't so lucky.

If it wasn't so close to the 1-year anniversary of the last time they abused trust to spam their users (mass pushing *an addon* to advertise some US TV show) I'd have probably let it slide.

Monoculture ahoy!

Posted Dec 7, 2018 16:26 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

It's bonkers. If Moz laid off their marketing department (or just told them to stay the hell away from FF), it seems like there's a decent chance their numbers would turn around. How many own-goals can they score?