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ploum Feb 13, 2024

Remember the new @mozilla CEO whose first action was to post a link to her Linkedin profile?

Some said I was harsh that we should let her the benefit of doubt.

So here are the first true actions: firing 60 people working on useless products to focus the company on its true mission.

The useless products?
- Relay (privacy, protection against spam)
- VPN (privacy)
- Mozilla.social (Mastodon)
- Monitor (privacy)

True mission to focus:
- AI (???)

You can’t made that up

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch

After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product

TechCrunch

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Brendan Jones Feb 14, 2024

@ploum @Herman @mozilla This makes me sad. I’m a happy, paying customer of Relay and VPN, they’re both great.

I hope if they’re laying off workers then the CEO also took a pay cut?

Does anybody have recommendations for Relay replacements, in case they actually shut it down?

I was hoping Proton might have such an email-forwarding service because I’ve been meaning to move my email over there anyway (time to de-Google!), but it doesn’t look like it. Pity!

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Brendan Jones

@ploum @Herman @mozilla And they’re focusing on Pocket?! Argh! The one product of theirs I’ve never found useful and regard as bloatware.

It better be making them loads of money, in which case I understand keeping it, even if I don’t like them pushing it in Firefox.

And AI? I *really* hope that means more useful, on-device services like their translation (which is great), and not some LLM chatbot integration or something equally stupid and costly.