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If you knew the amount of project changes, reorgs, CEOs, products, executives, etc we’ve went through you’d realize Googles behavior had little do with it. In fact, if it weren’t f…

You should actually read the link you posted. That had nothing to do with Firefox and has everything to do with ad blockers. Looks like YouTubes goal was to bring parity between th…

Basically, follow the money. To keep nonprofit/tax benefits, the work has to be done for some sort of public benefit. That work never gets done, instead it’s constant reorganizatio…

Web standards are open but that doesn’t mean you can’t build on top of them. YouTube is not an open standard. If Google wanted to end web support for YouTube and force everyone to …

It’s not monopolistic to not support shitty browsers with little user base. This isn’t even the basis for the current antitrust ruling against Google, for what it’s worth. As the p…

The perception of corruption is not without merit. Mozilla is pretty corrupt at this point. (Source: I work here). I really don’t get where this whole “the EU should fund it” idea …

The rendering engine portion of the whole Firefox vs Chrome debate gets way more attention than it should. It’s really not that important. Someone could fork any piece of the chrom…

Without that deal, there wouldn’t be a Firefox. If/when it’s gone, there’s no one capable/willing to fund Mozilla to that amount. Really there’s only 1 other company who can throw …

Just so you know, the money users donate goes towards political causes not towards Firefox. When you are donating, you are donating to the Mozilla Foundation (which is a non-profit…

No we won’t. We all knew this gravy train was coming to an end. In terms of revenue it’s ~500M per year/~80-something %. Once this stops, there’s no way for us to keep funding oper…

Working 10 hours per week was nice while it lasted.

The bar for how savvy you have to be to use an ad blocker is a lot lower than it used to be. There’s 2 different issues here: privacy and user experience. A lot of YT users are pro…

No one (and I mean that in the sense of a significant number) is switching to Firefox over this. Our user numbers are consistently heading downwards. Besides Google does other thin…

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It would be if you were willing to pay an ungodly amount for that box of crackers that not only made Walmart a viable business but was also an amount no one else was willing to pay…

Did you read my post that you’re replying to? > Principles come at the expense of your salary sometimes, and sticking to your principles isn’t pragmatic if you can’t effect greater…

It was really illegal. But what are you going to do? You can report your employer but once your culture has gotten to the point Mozilla’s has - where you can openly say these thing…

I’ve been on hiring committees at Mozilla where being a white male hurts the candidate. The committee wants a racial minority, LQBTQIA+, etc. The best white males can do is claim t…

You’re partly right. MoCo only cares about money. MoFo though is/was Mitchell’s political slush fund. TBD how things will shake out once there is a permanent CEO but Mitchell is re…

Gentle reminder that Mozilla Monitor is just OneRep, albeit marked up for Mozilla Corporation’s profits (yes Mozilla is a for profit, its foundation is not).

I’d imagine Google’s culture is more Mao-ist public shaming. Here at Mozilla, we like Stalin. Go against the orthodoxy? You’re disappeared and killed quickly. We have hour long pro…

Maybe you’d forgotten how it’s structured or maybe you hadn’t read through the foundations financial filings before. I don’t know. But somehow you think the foundation/corporation …