On: Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result

[gilrain]

Not nearly analogous. First, the policy was not about accountability, it was about privacy and specifically restoring a trust already broken.

Second, it would only have taken a worst case of 24 hours vs the 6 hours of using Studies to follow that policy. I think the integrity of a company that trades on that very thing is worth 18 hours.

[dralley → gilrain]

> it was about privacy

Yes, and adblockers, umatrix/noscript, Tor, and other add-ons were universally broken.

That has an impact on privacy too.

[gilrain → dralley]

So how many of Mozilla's policies need to be appended with "unless we think it's important enough"? All of them? Just the ones violated this time?

[quanticle → gilrain]

The implied distinction is that adherence to principle is what distinguishes Mozilla from Google. If Mozilla is willing to sell out its principles on this instance, then when else will it be willing to sell out its principles?

[Mirioron → dralley]

It's not like people didn't tell Mozilla about the potential for problems like this when signing was added.