• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    I don’t know what it is with Mozilla, they’re both the only saving grace of the open-source browser world and the most stupid internet company at the same time. And they’ve been both for decades, with a budget that could have allowed them to be and to do so much more…

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      1. I don’t know why people think Mozilla is a “saving grace” of anything. One glance at their privacy policy proves otherwise.

      2. Mozilla has both a for-profit and non-profit arm, much like RPi (formerly) and OpenAI.

      3. I am fully in support of privacy-preserving ads. Much of the internet runs on ads. All your favorite YouTubers, favorite news sources, etc. are all survived by ads.

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        This whole “for-profit owned by a non-profit” paradigm needs to globally crushed right the fuck now. It should never have been allowed to happen and should not be tolerated.

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        I am fully in support of privacy-preserving ads. Much of the internet runs on ads. All your favorite YouTubers, favorite news sources, etc. are all survived by ads.

        I can tolerate ads, but I still wish we had a better financing model for content on the internet at large. Ad tech has a tendency to creep into places where it doesn’t belong. Like task bars, or explorers.

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      5 months ago

      While both signal and Firefox are lords work… The actual leadership appears to be some clowns. Both appears to be essentially here to maintain status quo where tech nerds get their fix but the fix doesn’t go mainstream. It is a fine line.

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        5 months ago

        I don’t know about Signal, but I’ve seen two non tech savvy people using Firefox in the wild.