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I feel like I’m reading a different article than everyone else. The comments made me think the article would be adding advertisements, but it seems to be trying to find a way forward to facilitate advertisements while maintaining privacy.
Without technical details I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. I know lemmy is largely “Mozilla bad”, but I’m just not sure the comments are in line with the proposal.
Hard fork incoming in 3... 2... 1....
This is just a huge fuck you to their community.
Thanks but
We are targeting a first Alpha release for early adopters in 2026.
We need an alternative before that
Maybe this pushes the development a little bit. Would be a good opportunity to ask for funding and other means of help.
I honestly never expected the final death blow for Firefox to come from Mozilla.
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.
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.
Maybe they've been infiltrated by bad actors from Google, parading around as pro-privacy frauds.
Mozilla's PPA was developed in collaboration with Facebook. While we don't usually think of that company as advertisement centric, they are, just moreso within their own walled garden of a social network.
parading around as pro-privacy frauds.
Here's a frighteningly accurate prediction from The Register, written back in January:
...Baker notes: "We need to be faster in prototyping, launching, learning, and iterating ... This requires rich data, and so we will be moving in that direction, but in a very Mozilla way."
Surely not slurping telemetry?
According to the report, the "Mozilla way" is all about privacy, encryption, and keeping customer data safe. Hopefully, it will also be about innovation rather than scattering AI fairy dust over its product line.
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.