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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees, ends advocacy for open web, privacy, and more

More bad news from Mozilla.

The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

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Announcing the lay

https://www.osnews.com/story/141100/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-of-its-employees-ends-advocacy-for-open-web-privacy-and-more/

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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees, ends advocacy for open web, privacy, and more – OSnews

Nov 8, 2024 at 8:43pmWeb
Show threadsarah tonin Nov 9, 2024
@osnews waiting for the day they rebase on chromium
Show threadKai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Nov 9, 2024
@SRAZKVT @osnews never
Show threadsarah tonin Nov 9, 2024
@kaiengert @osnews sure would be nice if you're right,but it definitely doesn't feel that way at least
Show threadRenalia - #1 pizza downloaderNov 9, 2024
@osnews gonna have to start investigating who their chief donors are if they're really still "non-profit"
Show threadBen WrightNov 9, 2024
@osnews The death knell for a browser is when they start releasing features that aren't browser features (integrated email, home page widgets, weird-ass 'keep for later' bloatware). They're all things that are perfectly reasonable *as plug-ins/extensions*, but they've got no business being in the core browser. When they enter the main codebase, it's a sign of poor direction for the product because the devs are adding their own pet ideas instead of maintaining/improving the browser itself.
Show threadBob MachintrucNov 9, 2024

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From the actual news source:
"After publication, Borrman told TechCrunch that “advocacy is still a central tenet of Mozilla Foundation’s work and will be embedded in all the other functional areas,” without providing specifics."
— TechCrunch, https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

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