Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can’t watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social CEO isn’t “ruining Firefox on purpose” - the (current) purpose of Firefox is simply to protect Google from an anti-trust monopoly case, for Chrome. [Evidence? Mozilla’s funding]
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Can’t forget about their big Mozilla.AI push either! :finger_point:@MozillaAI@mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social I wondered too whether this was a ploy to intentionally destroy their browser. I’m at a loss for better explanations why they’d destroy their reputation so meticulously.
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Any advice on a new browser with useful add-ons?@nixCraft@mastodon.social capitalism never works, learnt the hard way
@nixCraft@mastodon.social It reminds me of what happened with Unity 3D some years ago.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social The question now is what are the alternatives? A fork of Firefox not doing that crap would be very nice if it had all the same features. I really need the container tab function.
Zen has the container tab function built-in on their Firefox fork. You don’t even need to install the extension.
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Billion dollars from google, being funded 90% by google.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Good bye Firefox. Switching to Brave.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Ahah bad timing for this 😂.
FYI, Sylvestre from Mozilla replied on HN:
“Please don’t read too much into this ;) We moved from self-hosted Discourse to hosted Discourse. The transfer was initiated late from the Mozilla side (my bad) and the automatic system from Discourse kicked in.”
@dannycolin@floss.social thank you for the heads up! regardless of that they are pushing AI and selling data et all are bad move.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social @dannycolin@floss.social Ai in itself is fine. Local LLM translation in Firefox is really good and I’d take it over Google Translate any time. If Mozilla is planning on adding local LLM summary of webpages, fine. If they train it on their own systems and not on user’s I’m fine with it.
Firefox is the only browser that still gives us flexibility with about:config. Don’t like the Labs panel? You can turn it off. Don’t like this or that? You can turn it off. They just need to fix their communication.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social It’s mediocre thinkers of the sort you see embedded in the bowels of every large enterprise elevated into the stewardship of something they don’t understand.
They’re the sort of people locked into the orthodoxy of what others are doing — not looking for the best, simplest, or easiest routes forward but rather the safest routes forward — the same ones everyone else is pursuing.
They squandered Mozilla’s unique position and can’t fathom why they’re locked into this perpetual decline.
And isn’t is amazing that they keep begging for donations, so their CEO can get at least $7MM a year? WTF? They are millionaires, and they expect us to contribute money to them, as if they are some deity? And Mitchell Baker is doing a shit job too. She’s worth minimum wage.
Stop with this bullshit FUD. For fucks sake, I thought foss communities were smarter than Republicans who fall for the same old shit every single fucking time. Clearly I was mistaken.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social I was thinking about it last night, and I really think they are sabotaging themselves.
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