Mozilla received $555 million from Google in 2023 Half a billion, they are both milking and lying to you
I suspected it would be something like this.
Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
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Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
#172I think it's too late for Mozilla, since it seems they already squandered most of their good will, userbase and money. At any rate, I think their only good path of to get rid of Gecko. The best would be to replace it with a finished version of Servo, which would give them a technically superior browser, assuming Google doesn't also drop Blink for Servo. It may be too late for this, but AI agents may perhaps make fini…
If they switch to Chromium, they'll just become yet another Chrome rebrand. It'll kill what makes their browser special.
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#173It's kinda frustrating that Mozilla's CEO thinks that axing ad-blockers would be financially beneficial for them. Quite the opposite is true (I believe) since a ton of users would leave Firefox for alternatives.
There's only two alternatives, safari and chrome-based browsers. Safari isn't cross platform either
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#174The fact that they even have a CEO is mind boggling to me
A lot of things are not what they pretend to be. Wikipedia is another example.
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#175It's kinda frustrating that Mozilla's CEO thinks that axing ad-blockers would be financially beneficial for them. Quite the opposite is true (I believe) since a ton of users would leave Firefox for alternatives.
Which alternatives though? On Mac at least, I'm not aware of any viable non-Chromium alternatives.
Orion is pretty viable alternative. Based on WebKit.
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#176It feels like the only reasonable path forward would be for the EU to buy Mozilla and fund it as a public resource.
Capital extraction is fundamentally opposed to user freedom. If we want an open web, we, the people need to be maintaining it and not rely on MBA types to do it for us.
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#177It's so tiring how everything around us is being engineered to make us miserable for the sake of profit. That in itself creates misery, almost seemingly for the sake of misery. A just world would punish this behavior.
It's about control, not profit. Many of these projects are unprofitable. Mozilla will lose business off this.
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#178They have been since a decade. After tripping down on unrelated political activism they do the same with AI. Firefox is only good for getting forked into better browser like Mullvad Browser, LibreWolf and Tor Browser.
I think AI in the browser could be useful. It just isn't that useful now. So far, the most useful "AI feature" Firefox has ever shipped is the page translation system, which uses a local AI to work. I wouldn't mind seeing more of things like that. Eventually, "browser use" skill in AIs is going to get better too. And I'd trust Firefox with an official vendor agnostic "AI integration" interface, one that allows an AI…
Yeah I use a plugin for similar translation functionality, but with a local llama.cpp instance instead. Definitely useful and has increased my usage. Also works nicely on the Android version of the app.
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#179The web without ublock origin is a hellscape. Whenever I try another browser, I immediately go back to firefox. Do these people even know their users? For example: Fedora Silverblue default Firefox install had an issue with some Youtube videos due to codecs. So I tried watching youtube on Chromium. Ads were so annoying I stopped watching by the second time I tried to watch a video. Stopped watching youtube until I un…
I prefer Brave but already have suspicions about that too.
Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
#180It will bring 150 millions the first year, but the next one?