https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/components/n...
"Messaging System"
"Vision"
"Firefox must be an opinionated user agent that keeps folks safe, informed and effective while browsing the Web. In order to have an opinion, Firefox must have a voice."
"That voice will respect the user’s attention while surfacing contextually relevant and timely information tailored to their individual needs and choices."
Somewhere in all of these companies exists the belligerent ** who orders the subordinates to inject inappropriate profit-seeking changes into the product. And then cajole/order/encourage another subordinate to write a florid virtuous editorial justifying their belligerent idea.
https://youtu.be/QWCINJ8uvIc?t=1m8s
(cut out some of background to focus on where he gets to similar patter)
In any case, fully agree. There are always these environmental pressures and "agents" (to evoke / use a sort of game theory modeling context) that lead to this sort of nonsense. Depending on the incentives, scope of power of people making decisions, training (esp., MBAs - simply being trained to look at "numbers in spreadsheets", essentially), etc., it's all too easy, these days, to end up with this kind of B$.