Mozilla’s now director of public policy once asked me, with a straight face, why I was giving them a hard time and holding Mozilla to a higher standard: “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”
But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?
Still, it’s time y’all got this.
Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.
https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/
#mozilla #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism
But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?
Still, it’s time y’all got this.
Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.
https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/
#mozilla #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism
[Update: Mozilla Fixes Its Documentation] Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla
Firefox now sends your keystrokes and location to Mozilla as you type in your address bar. Here's what you need to know.Chris Hoffman (How-To Geek)
JonossaSeuraava
•What's there to do for a lazy mildly caring person?
Aral Balkan
•Last I looked Librewolf was doing a good job of remaining current and stripping out Mozilla’s bullshit from their fork of Firefox: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Not a long term solution. Ideally we’d fund an independent not for profit org with EU taxpayer money to build an independent browser for the common good.
Bill Hooker
•M.S. Bellows, Jr.
•Jonas Vautherin
•I don't get all the hate for that move. Mozilla is not perfect, I get it, and the CEO earns a lot, ok. But I see many people recommending LibreWolf, which is Firefox, which suggests that they don't hate the project, but just the optional ads. Still, do they donate?
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
•Aral Balkan
•https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18b6tdp/mozilla_ceo_received_69m_salary_in_2022_a_2m/
Nothing to see here.
Aral Balkan
•#SmallTech #SmallWeb
Floppy 💾
•Do you think some differentiated judgement does make sense or really they don't deserve getting cut any slack?
Aral Balkan
•George Lund
•Job
•I guess you haven't heard of that time in 2020 when Mozilla laid off 25% of its employees, but still raised the pay of upper management that was already in the millions?
Also, how do you justify the fact that it's not possible to directly donate to the development of the Firefox browser, but only to Mozilla?
@aral @floppy
George Lund
•Aral Balkan
•Andrei Cristian Petcu
•Aral Balkan
•And there, again, folks should use it without being used by it by using Librewolf instead.
What we need is a to fund an organisation from public funds, to create a browser for the public good.
I know, how communist of me ;)
Aral Balkan
•(Firefox works fine for me on Fedora Silverblue.)