What are you talking about? This is the Firefox community, not many people are going to stop mid-post to say “BTW I hate Google more”
… BTW, I hate Google more.
And you’re incorrect: the community for leaving Google is more than four times the size of the community about Google.
As of August 2024, diaspora* is the only actively developed project classified under the tradition fediverse term that doesn’t support ActivityPub.
The effectiveness of the internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide.
- Mozilla Manifesto, Principle 6, emphasis mine
The one Mozilla executive who agrees with you (that employees should be put ahead of profit) is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with Mozilla over that.
Like all products, Firefox still maintains a small core of uncritical, devoted fans. To them, Mozilla can do no wrong.
The problem is, up until a few months ago, Mozilla advocated for privacy and other public facing values that lined up with their manifesto. Now, they are breaking away from that, and the true believers are shifting too: becoming hostile to privacy.
The people who liked Firefox because of its privacy stance, or because they were looking for an alternative to Big Tech, on the other hand, aren’t 100% likely to become a true believer, and those people are the critics. Often, those critics have been around for years going on decades.
If Mozilla doesn’t discontinue a Mastodon server with under 300 people, how will it continue funding the $65 million AI and venture capital investments they’ve been making?! 😬
Just a little comment on 2021: It seems disingenuous, from their perspective. Steve Teixeira, In a lawsuit, is claiming that not only did Mozilla try to get him to fire employees who were disproportionately minorities, but they were within a group that was producing a profit for Mozilla.
In other words, Mozilla might have been preaching inclusivity publicly while practicing exclusivity privately.
You’re right, I may have over generalized. To me, this looked like pandering…
As with over things I dislike, seeing queer representationin it is better than queer exclusion from it. Rainbow capitalism, in general, is better queer-excluding capitalism, for example… but I just found this particular workshop to be rather tasteless, especially when nothing came out of it.
(When I say nothing, I mean for at least 3 years there was no output… The people behind this workshop created a road map, then released a collection of NFTs, and then the supposed AI model that would be created from it never materialized AFAICT.)
What’s the language I used? I’d be happy to edit my post.
Compare to what Mozilla shows their users in a pop-up tab after the update:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/130.0/whatsnew/
Isn’t it strange that it doesn’t mention anything from the release notes on this page?
The only thing it does mention, Close Duplicate Tabs, isn’t mentioned on the release notes.
I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault for being confused or misinterpreting what’s in the article, because even Mozilla calls it blocking:
And starting in 2024, all our users can look forward to Firefox blocking even more third party cookies.
The linked page is even more confusing, because it provides a link back to this page for clarification about which third party cookies are being blocked.
So the update is, Firefox now blocks all third party cookies by default?
That’s great and new news… I just wish this post reflected that, so I wouldn’t have to dig through comments to figure out what changed between 2022 and today.
I was confused enough when they initially announced Total Cookie Protection in 2021 and then re-announced it as rolled out to all users in 2022.
I wasn’t thinking about that one, although it is hilarious Mozilla thinks it can claim it isn’t scraping private data by using a business collaborator as an intermediary.
It’s about their FakeSpot subsidiary.
Also not what I said.
Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023.
Mozilla became an advertising company in June, 2024.
Isn’t it curious that they’ve suddenly become much less outspoken about ad blocking after 2022?
You keep posting things that agree with me. I don’t think you understand that.
The only way to find a contradiction is to find new articles that trumpet their ad blocking capabilities, not old ones from years ago.
Do you understand, years ago?
A “value”!
How very specific!
If the Boeing Corporation started building “world peace” weapons silently into their commercial aircraft without telling anybody, I would question their commitment to world peace.
When Mozilla, an AdTech company, builds extra advertising data collection into Firefox, I question their commitment to privacy and not simply selling ads.
It’s unclear to me what the mobile Firefox homepage even is. It doesn’t increase the tab count, it just sort of hovers over your screen. And you can get to it by either pressing the Home button or the New Tab button; both of these do almost the same thing.