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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There is pressure to make it die, zero doubt.
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No more Mozilla, no more Firefox, how is Thunderbird? Should it go too?
@[email protected]@[email protected] 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]
@[email protected] 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.”
@[email protected] thank you for the heads up! regardless of that they are pushing AI and selling data et all are bad move.
@[email protected] @[email protected] 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.
@[email protected] I was thinking about it last night, and I really think they are sabotaging themselves.
@[email protected] Librewolf and Mullvad/Tor Browser for me then I guess.
@[email protected] It reminds me of what happened with Unity 3D some years ago.
@[email protected] “It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?”
I think ruining projects is a side-effect, not the purple/goal. Management/CEOs want to wring the most short-term profit they can out of an organization while they are running it. That usually means damaging the product/reputation in the long run, but they’ll be retired by the time their greed becomes a problem.
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Any advice on a new browser with useful add-ons?@[email protected] “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” - Hanlon’s razor
@[email protected] Firefox lost a long time ago, but had guaranteed income from the search-ads deals. They tried many things over the years to create another revenue source but failed.
I heard from a Mozilla insider that regulatory changes (from even before the current administration) will make those search-ads deals illegal. Which is kind of a good thing but now the org is facing its end and dissolving in predictable ways
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@[email protected] $7M, seriously? What’s source for this? If true, then beyond outrageous.
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Only a sociopath can take millions from unpaid open source contributors and security researchers. When your wealth is derived from others’ poverty it creates sociopathy in those that scramble over their fellow workers to climb to the top. Even the university tenure process trains teachers and students to exploit anyone beneath them. Survival of the greediest.
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