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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/3/14 8:30 AM, Tom Schuster wrote:<br>
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<div>Just came across this quote.<br>
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>>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!
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<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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Gavin's quote from earlier is a good way to think about this.<br>
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<pre wrap="">- making it possible for interested users to know the provenance of
sponsored tiles _is_ a design goal (which I think is accomplished by
the button design from bug 974736, though certainly the design could
be tweaked in various ways)</pre>
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From the reddit comments I'd say that that our new icon "->" and
button design could be failing the test of users being easily able
to identify the provenance of the tile. The extra step of having to
click on that symbol is not making into their heads so they aren't
seeing that the content is sponsored and its helping mozilla...
Its not clear to me that users would ever just make a connect of
this icon "->" to Sponsorship or Ads or not.<br>
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I'm confused that we just don't say "Sponsor ->" on the title
bar to identify that the content provider is helping to sponsor
Mozilla's activities. That seems it would be a benefit to the
content provider (creating a closer connection to Mozilla's public
benefit), and the user who likes to know the provenance of the
content.<br>
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-chofmann<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Tom<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Eric
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<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>
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<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>
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<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.
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On May 3, 2014, at 3:59 AM, Panos Astithas <<a
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<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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