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I had a low expectations from Mozilla, but holy shit. (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 10 months ago by 101@feddit.org to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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At that stage they are not hiding that they are a ads and AI company anymore.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

What you gonna do? Go to Google? Mozilla is not allowed to make advertisements (even with the goal of privacy respecting ads), Mozilla is not allowed to get money from Google and Mozilla is not allowed to sell Firefox. These are some of the problems Mozilla is facing. I'm personally not entirely against ads, if its done right (respecting my privacy and not being annoying, also not trying to scam me).

People shit on Mozilla and Firefox, but there is no alternative. Forks off course are alternatives, but without Mozilla's Firefox, there wouldn't be forks. Google, Microsoft and Apple are way, waaay worse.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[–] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Hear, hear!

[–] Matth78@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Agree. If it was a perfect world then governments would fund and contribute to open source project to make sure there are good free solution to keep your data private (at least from being collected and sold to some random companies) and make sure they won't go down.
Sadly I don't think it's really happening...

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

I don't understand governments. They want to be in a position where they are not controlled by single giant tech companies, yet they do not do anything for their freedom. Here in Germany from time to time the government, or parts of it, want to switch to Open Source (Linux and Office) and start funding it. But then after some time they give up. If they would fund the projects now, then later it would be a much easier task to switch entirely.