javi1d ago
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!
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Show threadViolet Madder1d ago

@javi

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

Show threadArtemysia1d 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.
Show threadjavi1d ago
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
Show threadDon Marti

@javi @artemis fwiw, it's worse than it appears -- Mozilla is still working with Meta and Google on putting ad tracking into the browser.

(say what you want about the lysine price fixing conspiracy, at least they booked their own meeting rooms and didn't piggyback off of W3C the way that the attribution cartel is doing https://blog.zgp.org/terminator-ending-for-privacy-sandbox/ )

a Terminator ending for Google “Privacy Sandbox”?

Mar 25 at 11:10pmWeb