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Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market" (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I honestly never expected the final death blow for Firefox to come from Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Is this a response to the fact that they may not get paid for having Google as their default search engine? If so, I worry about a bunch of Linux distributions. It's ironic that a company's toxic virtual monopoly was paying for so much open software.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Eh, they've been speedrunning this for years, this is just the most efficient way to get to the end goal of complete ruin.

I have a few alternative ideas, but I honestly don't think they're interested in hearing them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they've been infiltrated by bad actors from Google, parading around as pro-privacy frauds.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I hope so. I hope there could be a future where Mozilla is purged of these people and returned to being just a browser. Not everything has to be a "platform" with a business model for MBA's to feast on.