jwzOct 4, 2024

Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"

They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
https://jwz.org/b/ykaO

Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked" They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way. "Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure." We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. Gee, ya think? In parallel to our existing consumer ...

Show threadmooopingOct 4, 2024
@jwz Oh dear. Can anyone recommend an alternative browser? Thank you!
Show threadNemo Thorx

@moooping @jwz Firefox is the worst mainstream browser. Except for all the other ones that are available.

Afaik, at the moment any fork of Firefox still relies on Firefox to do the core developing and they just polish the edges to suit whatever niche they're catering for.

I suspect the interest in a hard/community fork of Firefox is growing, but probably impossible to predict when (or even if) it will pass critical mass threshold and actually happen in any usefully self sustaining way.

Oct 4, 2024 at 12:16pmWeb
Show threadmooopingOct 5, 2024
@nemothorx @jwz sounds like the next level of enshittificatiom: once products get worse, the market slowly adapts such that the best products get worse in line with market as it’s only the relative quality that matters. Until a disrupter comes along again. It strikes me that we’ve been waiting too long.