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1. Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 04:51:06 JST Takuya

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   • DarkMahesvara
   • Supah! :akko_fistup:
   @DarkMahesvara @hispanicweeb Mozilla's top priority is just paying their directors bonuses, and sucking google's dick, since they made themselves financially dependent on them. I became aware of that again by following the tragedy that is JPEG-XL (non-)adoption. It's better than Google's ugly kitbashed pseudo image formats (they're all just video intra frames), but doesn't get adopted because Google doesn't have full control over it, since it's a proper standard, not some strong-armed bullshit a monopoly made up.
   Mozilla decided to sabotage JXL the moment their keeper decided that the format needs to die.
   Just a few days ago I found this summary a guy wrote about the Mozilla situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/jpegxl/comments/1ckqf62/comment/l2qlkiw/ (sorry for linking to that crap site)
   The 2017 date is also mentioned there as the date any real development on Firefox stopped, and they focused on BS like pocket and that VPN nobody asked for.
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   • DarkMahesvara (darkmahesvara@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 04:51:07 JST DarkMahesvara

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     • Supah! :akko_fistup:
     @hispanicweeb too many people still didn't get that memo also doesn't help that everything else (chrome) is worse
   • Supah! :akko_fistup: (hispanicweeb@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 04:51:08 JST Supah! :akko_fistup:

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     • DarkMahesvara
     @DarkMahesvara firefox died when they added pocket, and that was 17 years ago
   • DarkMahesvara (darkmahesvara@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 04:51:09 JST DarkMahesvara
     "Having an understanding of what types of searches happen most frequently will give us a better understanding of what’s important to our users, without giving us additional insight into individual browsing preferences. This helps us take a step forward in providing a browsing experience that is more tailored to your needs, without us stepping away from the principles that make us who we are. "
     
     https://web.archive.org/web/20240515031243/https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/
     
     TRANSLATION: "selling our users search data to google wasn't enough, we need to double dip to give the suits on the board another gazillion dollar while user metrics are on an all time low"
     
     forks like librewolf, mullvad browser and tor browser are the thing firefox has claim to be for years