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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

The OP was focused specifically on technical feedback.

Ephera is not the OP. And Ephera decided to talk about business structure for some reason. Maybe you missed that too.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Ephera is the OP you responded to, not the OP of the post.

If your feedback is “Don’t roll these out!”, you’re still free to give that feedback

This is the context I'm referring to. Their response highlights that they're not interested in talking about management structure, only the specific technical issues with the feature. They've been incredibly consistent about that.

You went on a tangent about business direction. They responded they're not interested in that, and if that's the way you want to engage, keep the developers out of it because it's completely unhelpful (i.e. don't post stuff like that on their bugzilla, which is unfortunately all to common). I don't think OP is implying that criticizing management decisions isn't worth doing, there's just a more helpful way to do that than including it in a technical discussion.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

So you have no issue with the validity of my complaint?

  • Mozilla overpays their CEO
  • Mozilla has repeatedly screwed over employees
  • Chasing shiny things isn't helping them
  • Mozilla is screwing over their users privacy

You just want to argue pedantics? No thank you

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Whether I agree with you (I do) has nothing to do with the shopping feature implementation.

If you have technical issues with the shopping feature, bring it up with the developers. If you have policy issues for the management, name and shame with an open letter or similar.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Ethos is crucial to code recommendations.

If Mozilla included a virus in Firefox, I wouldn't be suggesting bugfixes to make the virus more user friendly. I would point to the general ethos to not build viruses into their software.

And because Mozilla promises an open Web where you make the choices, hardcoding an addon that promotes the three biggest retailers and a handful of paying advertisers is antithetical to that ethos too.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

If Mozilla included a virus in Firefox, I wouldn’t be suggesting bugfixes to make the virus more user friendly. I would point to the general ethos to not build viruses into their software.

The technical problem (i.e. the one relevant to the dev team) is how the virus got into the release product. If it was intentional, it's a management problem and there's no point in talking to the dev team further. If it was due to a breach in their infrastructure, then it absolutely is relevant to discuss w/ the dev team to ensure the breach is contained and fixed.

hardcoding an addon that promotes...

This again can be split into two groups:

  • technical - opt-in vs opt-out may be a technical decision the devs can make; if it's opt-out, whether it collects information by default may be a dev decision
  • management - whether it should be hard-coded, opt-in vs opt-out, collect user data or not, etc; there's no point in discussing these with the dev team once it's clear it's not their choice

Target the complains at the right group.

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