You Can Put Firefox on Your Phone!
Didn't you know?! Even if you already did, you absolutely should!
I open a new tab.
“Come on, use Firefox on the go! It’s so much better! You can sync all your experience from the desktop, you can have the same bookmarks, you can share pages! Awesome! Just give it a try, man!”
Makes sense, doesn’t it? I use Firefox on the desktop, I might as well like it on mobile, right? I mean, having Firefox on the desktop is a choice alright; Firefox doesn’t come as default browser usually, so I’m probably good audience to advertise Firefox on mobile, too, right?
Wrong!
I already do use Firefox on my phone. It is synced to the browser on my desktop! You are syncing my data to my mobile phone right now! What exactly makes you think that giving me an ad about something I’m already using is going to provoke anything other that annoyance?
Well, the answer is obvious, of course. Setting it up, you didn’t think at all, Mozilla, did you? You’re still the one decent browser not developed by an advertising company, and that matters, so we forgive you over and over again. Until we finally don’t.
I dread the future that comes then.