To "pure" citizens? No. They weren't a threat.
But they also decided who the pure citizens were.
Cross a line, annoy the wrong person, take the wrong photo at the wrong time, and very quickly, you could be found to be not so pure.
Then you were in trouble.
Gotta ask yourself how Israel has hostages to exchange on "day 1" of "this" conflict
A port of a browser is relatively minimal effort. Typically, the changes are largely cosmetic, and occasionally skin deep.
Developing a browser, Firefox or Chrome, takes a huge amount of effort, and are on a similar scale to both Windows and Linux. It's a lot. There are a lot of places to hide things. Taking all of that, and making V2 continue to work... well it'll be alright to start with. It's probably a flag somewhere currently. But in 2 years time? 5 years time? It will take a lot to keep V2 working, let alone back porting V3 features that people may actually want.
Just use Firefox instead.
People like to bemoan the funding model, as well as the Mozilla Foundations broad overview and general "business vibe"
Lost me at 'Why do they need to be "rooted out"?'.
Welp, they're a piece of shit.
~~This comment really feels like a reply to something. Taking sarcastic comments out of context to paint a person badly doesn't feel good.~~
Edit: Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/11541457
Turns out, that they are indeed, a piece of shit.
Ypu sre right in that the stock market, especially the US stock market, is a cluster fuck.
But it's a cluster fuck that mostly goes up, with solid returns over the last 10-20 years in index funds. I'm not going to cut my nose to spite my face on that, especially when the populous alternatives, like being a landlord, tend to have serious ethical concerns.
For examples of why the market is fucked, something your argument clearly lacked, the biggest indicator for me is that news of large buys/saells tend to move the market much more than the actual buy/sale.
(Personal theory, derivatives pretty much control the market, and a buy/sell doesn't interact with calls/puts typically, but the news of a sale gets people to interact with calls/puts)
I mean, that argument starts to wade in to the Mozilla foundation as a whole, and what their purpose is, and that's a giant kettle of fish.
Theoretical game. They lowball Google on how much Google pays them. How do people react? I don't see them doing that and say, "Man, I'm glad Firefox is reducing Google's influence over them". I see them making a thread about how Firefox is giving Google a discounted rate because they're all corrupt technofacists.
The core problem there still exists IMO. Funding.
What we really need is a reasonable way for open source, free, software, that exists for the good of the whole, to get money. But that has it's own kettle of fish, where does it come from, how big is big enough to get some, what if they charge for support, how open is open enough.
Something something, seize the means of production, communism, etc.
The trick is to choose what to not give a fuck about.
Jack black doesn't give a fuck about others opinions of his appearance.
He does give a fuck about death threats.
Seems pretty sensible and reasonable to me.
Ok idealist.
What is your alternative funding stream for Mozilla?
It's bad.
Is it worse than the advertising owned browser that gives your information directly to said advertiser?
It's a simple question, but with a complex answer that I'm not sure I have the tools and knowledge to answer.
But I'll try.
The answer has multiple layers, on the surface, yes, the "Aryan ideal" was what they strove for, and the picture they put forward was blonde hair and blue eyes. On the surface, it was purely cosmetic, you had those features you were probably the Aryan ideal.
But that wouldn't mean they would take an American prisoner who met those ideals and ship him off to the breeding center to help pump out perfect babies. Because they were inpure.
In another layer, in reality even, the "Aryan ideal" was used like a tool. You were pure if you stayed in line and supported the cause, and the threat of being found not pure was used to keep people in line. The threat of the secret police, was the threat of them turning up to whisk you, or your loved ones, away, at even the merest hint of dissidence.
By the end of the war, everyone knew someone who knew someone who had at least been questioned, if not disapeared.