Mastodawn

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

Mozilla Leadership

Mozilla

A cool crab wearing shades 4h ago

@javi 😩

Violet Madder 3h ago

I mean, have people not noticed that Mozilla has been out to destroy everything useful or nice about Firefox for years already?

Artemysia 3h ago

@violetmadder @javi I guess, but we keep making excuses for them. Crikey this is frustrating. Like I get we can't be moral purists and function under capitalism, but these people are absolutely amoral.

Violet Madder 3h ago

They're depraved predators out to ensure that there is NO privacy, freedom, or openness left anywhere.

Nothing functions under capitalism-- or at least not for much longer, anyway.

This is it. Most of us, to a certain degree, have excused their shit as "it's bad but it's what they need to do to survive, it's a lesser evil" some time or another. But holy shit, they have put Satan at the wheel, so I don't know how anyone can keep pretending they are not just as bad as everyone else

Coach Pāṇini ®3h ago

WTAF

Kevin Russell 3h ago

Time to fork Mozilla Firefox, not just edit it.

@kevinrns @javi Been saying that for a while, and sea lions pop back in barking that all forks fail when politics and user demands collide. (Apparently they never heard of LibreOffice, Tenacity, etc. Projects born of behind the scenes f*ckery, people having enough, forking it, and still going.)

Been on Waterfox the last year, hoping Servo is making good progress. If they go public next year, Firefox can go back to Brendan Eich for all I care and become Brave Lite.

Matt Jordan 3h ago

@javi Firefox has become the John Fetterman of browsers.

René Dario 37m ago

@muhkayoh @javi wow 🔥

@javi oh that is gross.

Why can't companies be normal!

@jackryder @javi

Probably one of the many reasons Mozilla has lost its way, HARD!

@librewolf is my choice these days!

@justin @javi @librewolf

Libre and Vivaldi

Jimmothy Baggins 2h ago

@javi The biggest issue for me is the lack of browser engines. Forking from Mozilla isn’t enough. An alternative from both chromium and gecko is needed.

There needs to be a new option that won’t come with the baggage or existing slop.

It’s the quicker option but it’s not the best option..

Until that happens every browser will be an offshoot of it and not that much better

Rasmus Lindegaard 2h ago

@javi @joeress wanna give this voice in your next podcast?

I mean, it's probably the last thing any of us wants to hear, but if it's the truth, its the fucking truth 😮‍💨

moooping 1h ago

@javi so what’s a preferred browser choice these days? Thanks for sharing btw.

Canageek 41m ago

@javi That explains so much