mozilla's main problem right now appears to be they just do not recognise that they have pissed users' trust up a wall and now we are suspicious of everything they do.
you cannot, in a position like that, just do things which look dodgy as fuck and expect users to suck it up quietly, whether or not they are as they look.
look, i'm going to put this in simple words that even a mozilla employee could understand:
earn back our trust or die.
mozilla is pretty fucked anyway, they have relied on google buying default search engine placement illegally.
even if they manage to scrape out of this by building back trust, we are all likely to move onto servo at some point.
you may recall moz started servo, then merged part of it into gecko, then abandoned servo.
like they did with rust and some other things. things they've done for the better are the things they are abandoning.
@dysfun And they fail to realise that the people who stayed are not the normal “I just want to go to Google” people.
We are the weird ones. The ones who use DDG and Signal, who turn off location tracking and notifications for everything, who read the fucking licence agreements.
They have no idea who their users are.
@dysfun this is the part that does my head in
there are so many cool and worthwhile projects that mozilla started and then just ..... noped out on
but then there's shit like "Firefox Personality" and all kinds of other junk which they spent way too much time on, both per project and as total mindshare
management priorities for the utterly deranged
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samir, an unknown quantity
Damu
Simon Lucy
Polychrome 
Ted Mielczarek
JP
jonny (good kind)
I love this, so I