Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival
Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival
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Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival
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Nah, it's vital for the CEO's pay. Firefox can survive on its own just fine. Perhaps even better.
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I agree that the executive pay is ridiculously high, but Mozilla does a lot more than fund Firefox. Off the top of my head, there's contribute to research and standards (occasionally standing up to Google and Apple), run MDN and similar sites, lobby for user-friendly regulations, fund other projects (maybe that's in the past?), and advocate without corporate bias.
I know there's a Mozilla foundation and a Mozilla corporatilla foundation and a Mozilla corporation and I'm not clear which one does what tbh.
From what I hear about the Firefox code base, I think the best thing we can hope for is at Firefox manages to hold on until one of the new browser engines is mature enough to take over.
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The pay isn't the only problem, it's not even the main problem. The problem is that Google money comes with strings attached. There's obvious corruption in the Mozilla corporation. Just as an example, Firefox was at the forefront of implementing PWA, before everyone else, before it was called PWA even. Google's money started really pouring in, and they dropped it. Then they kept axing features and not listening to their community, stopped doing research in things that users cared about and went off on tangents no one wanted (and are still doing that with AI). Mozilla kept losing market share at the same rate C-suite bonuses climbed.
Google's money is a cancer that needs to be excised. Mozilla can still go back to being the amazing company it was before, but only if that money is gone.
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But it will almost certainly result in reduced browser competition, handing more market share over to the likes of, er, Google, Apple, Microsoft and OpenAI, if they’re able to buy Google Chrome — companies with questionable interest in furthering the “open web” Mozilla fights for.
I missed this one go by:
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I'm glad when the google money goes away. I like using firefox but mozilla needs to get off their money addiction.
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Oh no! Anyway.gif
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