Mozilla is an advertising company now
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This seems completely normal and cool and not troublesome in any way. Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a [blah blah blah] raise the bar for the advertising industry [blah blah blah] while delivering effective advertising solutions. [...] Anonym was founded with two core beliefs: [blah blah blah] and second, that digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and ...

Also from Jamie Zawinski yesterday: Mozilla’s Original Sin

Some will tell you that Mozilla’s worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

Those are different things and are very much in conflict. They picked one. They picked the wrong one.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      3·
      5 months ago

      The web dying (i mean web browsers, html, javascript, etc) wouldn’t be such a bad thing imo.

      Look at what’s happened to nearly every static content site in the past few years, they’ve become nearly unusable.

      News companies can try to convince ppl to use their apps, but everyone else will continue to use social media apps to get most of their news like they already do anyway. Ppl wanting static content can use the minimal protocols like gemini, gopher, or even a simple markdown web browser, which are already better than most news sites.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      part of the reason I haven’t done anything right there. what is there to switch to? Chromium? Where they are actively killing adblockers?

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        11·
        5 months ago

        Why are you applying the Wait And See philosophy to Firefox but not to Chrome?

        Seems a bit… Reactionary.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          Because Chrome has already announced they are killing adblockers with manifest V3, and they have been very public about that for years.

          Firefox just announced 2 weeks ago they are supporting manifest V2 & V3, and going on to support adblockers.

          • LWD@lemm.ee
            11·
            5 months ago

            Did they actually say that?

            I think we need to Wait and See, to give the ad company the benefit of the doubt. And by “the ad company,” I’ll let you figure out whether I’m referring to Mozilla or Google.