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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by lillecarl »

Henchman21 wrote: post #347
major505 wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mozilla is more occupied this days paying multi milionary bonus to its executives and begging users for money they waste on useless projects. Mozilla must die, so Firefox can live.

All my hopes are with Ladybird now

My hopes are with Servo, I like the novelty of it being implemented in Rust rather than C/C++.

I follow Ladybird and appreciate their work. Especially implementing everything from standards, fixing standards and keeping it easy to follow the standards in code (and I'm proud Andreas is Swedish too).

But for something with the surface area of "everything you can do with a computer and it's uncle" a memory safe language feels like the right choice.

Just a knee-jerk opinion since I'm not a browser dev and existing sandboxing seems to work well enough, but an opinion nonetheless.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by jonwinstanley »

whyenot wrote: post #315
major505 wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mozilla is more occupied this days paying multi milionary bonus to its executives and begging users for money they waste on useless projects. Mozilla must die, so Firefox can live.

Their reckoning day is coming when Google stops paying them $500m+ a year to be the default search engine. That payment alone account for 80% of Mozilla's budget, and has made them fat, wasteful, and directionless. It's really upsetting to me personally, I gave a lot (time, code, and money) to Mozilla in the early days when they were really struggling.

As I understand it, Google pay for the searches passed on by the browser. So as long as they have users, they’ll get paid.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by thesuitonym »

major505 wrote: post #247
segphault wrote: post #71

I was a user for so long that I was on it before it even rebranded as Pocket. I finally gave up on it last year, mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app. When Mozilla made the unfathomable decision to become an internet advertising company, I figured it was just a matter of time before they had to put Pocket out to pasture. A product that's designed to strip ads from content for re…

Mozilla is more occupied this days paying multi milionary bonus to its executives and begging users for money they waste on useless projects. Mozilla must die, so Firefox can live.

I'm curious what the governance structure of Mozilla is that keeps things this way. People have been upset for quite a while at the direction Mozilla is going in, yet there seems to be no coalition to oust the current leadership. Is this impossible for some reason?

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by tetrisgm »

randomor wrote: post #226

Wow, after Instapaper went back to indie from Pinterest[1] and Omnivore closing last year this is no longer surprising. This is also proof that read-it-later app as a category is not sustainable as a venture / company backed service. This is also a category of app that I believe could be better served by local-first native apps. As there is no reason why a server has to be requirement to enjoy the full service. Your…

This looks like a lovely body of work.

I do have to say I am reluctant to even try it because the idea of essentially hijacking the copy shortcut really makes me anxious.

Especially because I often press command c multiple times to ensure the thing I want is registered. Using that as a trigger sounds like it would punish me.

I’d normally brush this off, but here the entirety of the pitch is centered around the idea of that command, rather than its value prop.

Hope this gives some insight!

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by mewse-hn »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #382
whyenot wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their reckoning day is coming when Google stops paying them $500m+ a year to be the default search engine. That payment alone account for 80% of Mozilla's budget, and has made them fat, wasteful, and directionless. It's really upsetting to me personally, I gave a lot (time, code, and money) to Mozilla in the early days when they were really struggling.

As I understand it, Google pay for the searches passed on by the browser. So as long as they have users, they’ll get paid.

The DoJ is arguing in court that Google should be barred from paying off Mozilla because of Google's search monopoly

https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-r...

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by rs186 »

wenbin wrote: post #23

One issue I've had with read-it-later apps is that I end up accumulating far too many articles and never actually reading them. Now my approach is simple: if I see something I want to read, I either read it immediately or never.

If you ever take a train (those where everyone has a seat) or flight, those are long hours perfect for reading.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by edoceo »

kbrosnan wrote: post #366
doubled112 wrote: post #274

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And Thunderbird?

It is the MZLA Technologies Corporation a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation a wholly owned part of the Mozilla Foundation.

How did they even get this corporation owned by a foundation situation? That just seems like some kind of tax trick.
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