Jeremiah Lee

Ok, so how do we fork Firefox successfully into a more user-aligned nonprofit, funded by donations and non-browser-touching halo services, that’s still pragmatic in nudging surveillance capitalism in the right direction without losing compatibility or being complicit, and bring Servo back into inner circle?

Proton’s new foundation is a strong contender to lead a fork.

What other ideas do you have?

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

My earlier proposal: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/mozillas-soul-searching/

#Firefix #Firefox #webDev

Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog

LAURA CHAMBERS, CEO, MOZILLA CORPORATION As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising. Our hypothesis is that we n

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Show threadbrerbOct 4, 2024
@Jeremiah here's my idea https://servo.org/sponsorship/
Sponsorship - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

Servo
Show threadMaxi 12x 💉Oct 4, 2024

@Jeremiah Proton is on board with the AI hype.

https://social.coop/@mattl/112809931834473710

https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/113131799252542505

Dr. Matt Lee 🎃 (@[email protected])

Proton Mail is now AI bullshit. Pass it on. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/proton-mail-goes-ai-security-focused-userbase-goes-what-on-earth/ Please boost.

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Show threadPaul HouleOct 4, 2024

@Jeremiah if Mozilla can't "think different" after all these years maybe we do need a fork; it's a requirement for me though that the next one not be based in the bay area because how else could they "think different?"

I was thinking the EU could fully fund Mozilla if they were serious about privacy

Show threadJeremiah LeeOct 4, 2024
@UP8 Perhaps also it’s time for US Americans to put more political pressure on their government to care about privacy and fund open source. The EU already is doing the heavy lifting with both effective regulation and tens of millions of euros granted to open source projects. The most powerful country in the world hasn’t done anything yet.
Show threadDon MartiOct 4, 2024
@Jeremiah The Document Foundation and Software Freedom Conservancy are both good at running a low-overhead organization and maintaining complex codebases with complicated interoperability requirements.
Show threadFlorian IdelbergerOct 9, 2024
@Jeremiah tbh proton has its own problems. Just last week or so ppl were complaining about scammy vpn advertising and other things. So maúnr they’re headed the same way?