[imnotjames]

Per https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1414266#answer-1...

> Thank you for reaching out with your concern. Firefox is committed to creating an online experience that puts people first, as such we quickly stopped running the ad experience, and are reviewing internally.

[Waterluvian]

I’m always glad that PR people can’t help but speak in such inhuman language that makes it obvious that it’s not a real sentiment but just part of the play.

[Wowfunhappy]

Honestly, I thought it was a pretty strong statement. They basically said "we screwed up."

[ekianjo]

> Firefox is committed to creating an online experience that puts people first, as such we quickly stopped running the ad experience, and are reviewing internally.

Should read as:

> Oops, we got caught again doing stuff that our core users don't like. Let us remove this until we find a better way to make you angry

[roughly]

> Firefox is committed to creating an online experience that puts people first

This phrase is approaching a Betteridge's law level tell for who’s at the wheel - nobody needs to insist they’re putting people first unless it’s really obvious they’re not.

“My corporate doublespeak has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my corporate doublespeak.”

[Wowfunhappy]

> Firefox is committed to creating an online experience that puts people first, as such we quickly stopped running the ad experience, and are reviewing internally.

That says to me that Firefox is aware the ad experience did not put people first, and that Firefox broke their commitment. They are discussing internally how this was allowed to happen.

[eikenberry]

This rule doesn't hold in general though... eg. "putting the customer first" is code for treating employees as interchangeable cogs without any voice. But it does mean that they are actually putting the customer ahead of employees.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

I just saw this a half hour ago... it's still happening.

I was on reddit, and couldn't be sure that it wasn't reddit doing it. Though I half-suspected Firefox. Imagine my surprise when I saw this post.

Nothing about this seems "quickly stopped". The timestamp on your link says nearly 7 hours ago.

[cubefox]

It was edited later:

May 25, 2023 at 3:56:49 PM PDT

[userbinator]

They are certainly putting people first --- those people being precisely the bastards who came up with this crap.

I still remember when the slogan was something like "putting users in control of their online experience", got silently changed to "individuals" instead of "users" at some point, and apparently it's just "people" now.