@aral This is so sad
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Mozilla’s now director of public policy once asked me, with a straight face, why I was giving them a hard time and holding Mozilla to a higher standard: “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”
But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?
Still, it’s time y’all got this.
Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.
howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-n…
#mozilla #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism
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Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Professor_Stevens
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •My brother, they will not tell us in ten years that we were right. They will never tell us that we were right. And they will not do the right thing, not then, not now.
Doing the right thing now is on us and us alone. Always has been. Always will.
Lulu · לולו
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Lulu · לולו • • •Lulu · לולו
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Ah, I see now! You are addressing Mozilla.
I thought "I need you to do the right thing today" was addressed to the browser users and then I didn't understand what you meant because I think currently browser users have no "right thing" options available.
Mozilla should definitely do better.
Aral Balkan
in reply to Lulu · לולו • • •@lulu Sadly, they can’t. They’re not structured to be able to. They are, as their head of public policy once told me, “just another Silicon Valley tech company.”
(With a foundation that does their PR.)
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Mozilla isn’t an ally. Mozilla is Big Tech. Mozilla is Big Web.
#SmallTech #SmallWeb
JonossaSeuraava
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •is there even an option left? Like there is basicly firefox and then chrome forks, right?
What's there to do for a lazy mildly caring person?
Aral Balkan
in reply to JonossaSeuraava • • •@JonossaSeuraava Yeah, it’s not looking good.
Last I looked Librewolf was doing a good job of remaining current and stripping out Mozilla’s bullshit from their fork of Firefox: librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Not a long term solution. Ideally we’d fund an independent not for profit org with EU taxpayer money to build an independent browser for the common good.
Sarcasmo220
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@JonossaSeuraava
There's a few of them out there:
ladybird.org/ github.com/versotile-org/verso and mauikit.org/apps are in really early stages of development.
I disagree that Firefox is Big Tech, but it definitely is trying to become like them. These growing flaws have reached a point where it is time to consider funding one of those projects.
GitHub - versotile-org/verso: A web browser that plays old world blues to build new world hope
GitHubStefan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Inhji, Aspect of Rage
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I just found otter-browser and will give it a shot today, but yeah, shit like this will drive even more ppl into the arms of Google..
github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-…
GitHub - OtterBrowser/otter-browser: Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5
GitHubBlackpaws ~$
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •GitHub - dr460nf1r3/firedragon-browser: A Floorp fork with custom branding and opinionated settings 🐉 (mirrored from GitLab)
GitHubiooioio
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I've defended #mozilla a lot in the past but this is really the last straw. There's like... nothing of value left.
I'll be replacing #firefox with #librewolf on my desktops for now. We really do need a more sustainable long-term solution though.
... and on mobile? No idea.
the notorious gzt
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Jonas Vautherin
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •half a billion, most of which comes from Google, right? Not donations. And they allow you to disable the ads in the search bar and donate, if you think it's a better model.
I don't get all the hate for that move. Mozilla is not perfect, I get it, and the CEO earns a lot, ok. But I see many people recommending LibreWolf, which is Firefox, which suggests that they don't hate the project, but just the optional ads. Still, do they donate?
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Unknown parent • • •@louisrcouture @floppy
Just to add to the research, note that Mozilla has ignored these bug reports, which would be trivially easy to resolve if they were on the side of humanity:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
1897608 - manifesto principle 9 needs rework
bugzilla.mozilla.orgAral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)
Aral BalkanHoldMyType
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