Batu69 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Browse Free or Die is a campaign by Mozilla, makers of Firefox, that has been designed to reward Firefox users with a free sticker. Firefox users who answer questions on their first experience are mentioned explicitly on the project site over on Github. Users who answer a "first experience" question may trigger the sidebar. It is unclear if the sidebar is displayed on other occasions or events as well. Firefox displays a sidebar panel when the reward requirements are met.It is displayed on the left side of the browser window, and has a close button in the top right corner. It reads: Browse Free or Die You've earned it We think you're awesome. That's why we want to send you this awesome sticker. Totally free. Totally for you. Browse Free or Die Below that is a form that requests personal information from the user. There is also a link to the privacy policy underneath the "send me a sticker!" button which leads to Mozilla's Privacy Policy. You could say that this is pretty nice of Mozilla, to offer free stickers to Firefox users. That's probably the intention of the "browse free or die" campaign. Good intentions aside, the campaign is problematic for a number of reasons. The biggest concern that users may have is that there is no way of telling if the campaign is legitimate or not. The popup looks similar to popups that spam sites may throw at you to get you to enter personal information including your name and address. If you can distinguish between sidebar content and popups, you may be able to tell that the Browser Free or Die sidebar is not pushed by a site. It could still be pushed by malware, or a malicious browser extension though probably. It seems likely that the sidebar may cause concern that it is not legitimate, and that the system may be compromised. The campaign title, browser free or die, seems inappropriate on top of that, and it may feel threatening to some users. A better title, Firefox loves you or Firefox wants to reward you, would make it look more legitimate probably. A bug has been opened on Bugzilla to get Mozilla to confirm that it is indeed a legitimate campaign, and to rethink the presentation or existence of the campaign if it is. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everyone Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I think that people at Mozilla stopped grasping reality at some point. Instead of focusing on making a better browser they've been notoriously wasting effort and resources on side projects void of purpose and engaging in meaningless political correctness fights, which costed them a loss of Brendan Eich. The way I see it they are accelerating on a straight slippery slope to nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 As long as it exists, Firefox all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RejZoR Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Of course it's problematic. Everything is sexist, everything is racist and everything is problematic these days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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