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Gary Vee is a notorious ~~grifter~~ NFT salesman with a checkered past.

Webacy is a cryptocurrency wallet "technology layer" that "provides security features" like password backup, "digital wills", etc.

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[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 10 months ago

for fuck's sake mozilla

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So we are doing AI and Crypto, but shutting down Mozilla.social?

Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago

This article was released in febuary 2023

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ Mozilla..... You have one job.. Make a browser. Why the duck are you with Gary V, international man of stupidity.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 20 points 10 months ago

Why would firefox deal with a known scammer?

I guess at the end of the day all of these entrepreneur are scammers.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla, as always, late to the party.

Crypto and NFT scam were a thing long ago.

[–] Vincent 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Crypto and NFT scam were a thing long ago.

So was this article :) Not that there ever was a party.

Luckily Firefox remained a fine browser throughout the crypto nonsense, so I'm hoping the same holds true when the next AI winter sets in.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Even back in 2023 this was all old stuff … NFT scam was a big thing in 2021 and the crypto hype was a thing around 2013-2018. It’s both still there, but no-one really cares anymore as far as I can tell.

so I’m hoping the same holds true when the next AI winter sets in.

They are already sinking millions into the AI hype :(

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm trying to keep my faith in Mozilla, but fucking Gary Vee?????

[–] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My guess is the Google deal is running out soon, and they're desperately throwing shit against the wall, hoping something will stick.
I still think you should be able to make a decently working browser with the money Mozilla's CEO earns alone.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

I was about to say, can we do some crypto bullshit instead of improving the browser? Love this move for mozilla

[–] Vincent 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Feb 7, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. Updated May 9, 2023 at 6:07 a.m.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You all not only don’t read the article, the date published is right there in the URL

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[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

None of that addresses or explains why you posted an older article without noting the age of it.

And you do know how Mozilla Ventures is different from other parts of Mozilla, right?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because when sharing anything, it’s important to provide the context of when it was published if it’s older? Especially when there are active and current discussions about a topic (ie governance of Mozilla) and someone could easily be confused about how recent an article is? Otherwise it could appear to be intentionally misleading, which I’m sure was not your intent.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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