Has Mozilla Lost Its Values?

So, they are just whining because they can't solve this "technical problem" with legal mechanisms. Apparently they lack technical chops to continue to "serve relevant ads".

Therefore, I offer my services for a measly 10 million dollars per year to employ my skills to:

* Fend off adverse technical proposals.

* Coalesce around market-making implementation guidelines and creative standards.

* Create common ground with developer to reduce costly friction in the content delivery chain.

* Share best practices that foster audience growth.

* Generate industry-wide research and thought leadership that would solidify Interactive as the leading consultancy

* Create countervailing force to balance power of other free software, privacy advocates, and de facto internet standards groups.

This is unbelieveable. IAB = Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Accusing Mozilla of 'losing it's values' for protecting privacy on the web, and even twisting the open web motto as to legitimize their snooping activities. I think I've had enough internet for today.

What a bizarrely, unapologetically biased article. There's probably room for debate on which cookies should be blocked by default, but you don't start that debate by insinuating that ad-blocking is illegal and Mozilla enjoys distributing illegal software.

Eventually I just had to scroll to the tagline to find out where this article came from:

Randall Rothenberg is President and Chief Executive Officer, Interactive Advertising Bureau.

This is exactly how lobbyists work, nothing new here.

Wow, classic case of Batteridges law of headlines.

There's some absolute gems in there for connoisseurs of eloquent incompetence.

"Consider, for example, the role of commerce - the freedom to engage in which was a fundamental spark to the American Revolution. Although it may not be as apparent as when a customer enters a physical store, visiting a web site is a commercial act, during which a value exchange occurs. Consumers receive content, and in exchange are delivered advertising."

These people are nuts.