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Fork it, and form a publicly-funded non-profit to continue development for the public good.
Unfortunately Mozilla is already a publicly funded nonprofit.
I wish they'd stop wasting money on dumb projects like a VPN and instead just focus on making a fast, modern browser that respects my privacy and doesn't fucking show me ads.
I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
If you have ideas for alternative sources of funding for Mozilla to pay its programmers and other staff without relying so heavily on Google money for their organization's existence, I'm sure they'd like to hear about it. They're trying to tackle the revenue issue on multiple fronts, including Mozilla VPN, a subscription "privacy pack" (that includes Mozilla VPN and upgraded versions of Firefox Relay and Firefox Moni…
I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
and not something like their mobile OS or their social missions (like 3D VR chat and other assorted crap)
Safari is the best browser there is right now, hands down.
I know this has been posted before, but it seems to be getting some traction and outrage on twitter and other social media today. Props to Mozilla for finding revenue diversification opportunities, but this still doesn't feel quite right since it's enabled by default.
Who would deliberately enable this, given that the Mozilla user base is the kind that would have adblocker extensions?
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Using stuff for free is also fundamentally malicious.
It is not Mozilla's job to profit off its users. Its job is to provide a browser. They have utterly failed at this job. I have a fundamental right to see not see the content I do not want to see. I have a fundamental right to not be advertised to. Firefox has violated this right.
Firefox is a non-profit, but it needs revenue to provide that browser to users. Right now most of that revenue comes from Google (and its search suggestions, also enabled by default, I think). I'm not sure how you expect it to do its job for free, and it seems to get nothing but pushback whenever it tries to become more independent. I do not agree with all of Firefox's decisions, but to say they have "utterly failed" feels overstated.