Mozilla is an advertising company now
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This seems completely normal and cool and not troublesome in any way. Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a [blah blah blah] raise the bar for the advertising industry [blah blah blah] while delivering effective advertising solutions. [...] Anonym was founded with two core beliefs: [blah blah blah] and second, that digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and ...

Also from Jamie Zawinski yesterday: Mozilla’s Original Sin

Some will tell you that Mozilla’s worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

Those are different things and are very much in conflict. They picked one. They picked the wrong one.

  • watson387
    2·
    6 months ago

    I don’t support Google’s web takeover so I don’t want to use their browser, open-source or not.

    • Gauff@piaille.fr
      1·
      6 months ago

      @watson387 No no, I’m fully with you on that. What I’m confused about is that Chromium, like Android, was initially open source, and that Google took it over indeed, right? So technically, they’re on a fork (the worst one according to my principles), and using other forks is a different thing, isn’t it?

      Unless i’m wrong (highly possible 😅)? Happy to learn and discuss 🙏🏼