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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    1 year 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?

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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        1 year 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.