I am really rooting for #Ladybird browser to be ready so I can jump ship.

Mozilla has clearly lost their vision of being a non-privacy invasive, truly free and open web browser. Their re-wording of the T&C doesn’t mean shit if your identity and ideology has changed.

If I had my way at Mozilla, I would:
1. Close for-profit organisation, kick out the C-suites, hand over any and all power back to the non-profit organisation.
2. CEO is getting a HUGE pay cut. (quit if you are unhappy)
3. Sell the ad company to recoup the costs (might not make a profit)
4. Make sure to restructure the organisation without layoffs (or keep them to a bare minimum).
5. Google money would have to stay (for the next few years) unfortunately until we figure out where to invest/pull out money from.

A man can dream 🙃

Thunderbird would still be with us (Love you @thunderbird) though.

#diary #mozilla #mozillacorp

The #Debian project packages #Firefox as 'firefox-esr'.

(Please don't offer speculation, I'm asking for substantiated information) Will that package continue to package a #FreeSoftware Firefox browser, as it does today? How?

The odious "terms of use" that #MozillaCorp intends to erect as a barrier to #SoftwareFreedom, is incompatible with the DFSG. How will this be resolved? Cease to package Firefox in Debian? Strip any imposed barrier and continue the free Firefox package? Or what?

Whether or not the #Firefox obnoxious "Terms of Use" actually come into effect, the @mozillaofficial corporate management have shown us their arses. We cannot trust them again.

The current leadership of #MozillaCorp have failed the primary job of that organisation:

* Be a champion for #SoftwareFreedom, #UserFreedom, and #Privacy on the #OpenWeb.
* Maintain and promote the excellent, #StandardsCompliant, reference web browser for everyone.
* That's all.

Workers, boot the leadership out.

And there it is: @mozilla loses its Advocacy division, and the #OpenWeb loses what was once a champion.

“We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it” says the Mozilla Foundation. Oh yeah, laying off workers is “revisiting” how to do the work, all right.

#MozillaCorp is nakedly a profit-seeking #SurveillanceCapitalism promotional body today.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs

@mozilla, you *must* change #MozillaCorp leadership. They are selling out the entire user base, to the #surveillance #ArtificialStupidity #grift.

> Anonym is building technology that can provide more privacy-preserving infrastructure for data sharing between advertisers and publishers.

Bullshit. Stop handing your users to surveillance creeps.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/

#MozCorp #SurveillanceCapitalism #UserHostile