<div dir="ltr"><div>Just came across this quote.<br><br>>>I am critical of this. The most obvious problem is that they don't
indicate in any way which of the tiles are organic and which are
sponsored. That is problematic!
<div class=""><div class="">>I think the image in the article is just an early mockup. I'm sure
there will be some differentiation in the actual release. This is
Mozilla we're talking about here, they've kinda got a track record for
being transparent about this sort of >thing.
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<br></div>Tom<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Eric Shepherd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eshepherd@mozilla.com" target="_blank">eshepherd@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>That's odd. I see all-text ads all the time. Google shows them everywhere. For that matter, they're in the newspaper every day. Have you not seen classified ads? Oh hey, there's that word. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm not trying to be flippant; this is an important point. You can try to argue the fine point of semantics all you want, but the very fact that this debate is happening means that the problem of perception is a real one. It doesn't matter what you think; it matters what others think.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is a lesson we have to repeat to my daughter all the time: it doesn't matter what you think you're doing; it matters what the people around you <b>think</b> you're doing.<div class="">
<br><br><div>Eric Shepherd</div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div class=""><div><br>On May 3, 2014, at 3:59 AM, Panos Astithas <<a href="mailto:past@mozilla.com" target="_blank">past@mozilla.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div>
<blockquote type="cite">Ads in my experience come with a significantly richer content: taglines, attractive photos, spiffy videos. They convey a message, in a way that is enticing and by necessity more verbose. You can't sell many shoes by showing the string "Nike".</blockquote>
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