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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 02:50:26 JST Aral Balkan

   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.

   https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/

   #mozilla #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 02:50:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • M.S. Bellows, Jr.
     • Jonas Vautherin

     @msbellows @jonasvautherin Make that €6.9M. As Firefox looks set to dip under 2% usage.

     https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18b6tdp/mozilla_ceo_received_69m_salary_in_2022_a_2m/

     Nothing to see here.

   • Jonas Vautherin (jonasvautherin@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 02:50:24 JST Jonas Vautherin

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     @aral 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?

   • M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 02:50:24 JST M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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     • Jonas Vautherin

     @jonasvautherin @aral Also, although I share the frustration at high CEO salaries, we *do* want valuable, community-improving organizations to have good leadership, and if someone talented will take $3M to run a nonprofit well instead of $30M to enshittifiy yet another commercial venture, that's a good thing. (I don't know enough to opine on whether that's the case here, but the principle is true.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 17:15:30 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Blaze Ward

     @blazeward7 Careful with Opera. They’re now owned by a Chinese consortium.

     (Firefox works fine for me on Fedora Silverblue.)

   • Blaze Ward (blazeward7@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 17:15:31 JST Blaze Ward

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     @aral

     does firefox even work anymore? I tried it when chrome went extra shitty this last summer, and firefox simply failed/crashed after about 10-30 seconds by day 3 and I swapped over to opera.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 19:37:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     You know, I don’t need you to tell me ten years later that I was right. I need you to do the right thing today.