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.
    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      They didn’t need your donations before, because they were stuffed to the gills with Google/Yahoo money, and they don’t need them now, because they’ve chosen to become an ad company[1][2].

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      i need to find a new daily driver too and it makes me sad since none of the other browser projects i’ve tried seem up to par so far.

  • The_sleepy_woke_dialectic [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 days ago

    A few weeks ago I was prompted to fill out a survey asking such questions as “why do you use mozilla programs such as firefox?” and "what do you think is the most important work done by mozilla?’

    Then a few days ago I saw this blog post about how much effort they’re putting into their new advocacy branding. It rings very hollow. The corporate recuperation of net-neutrality and adjacent digital activism is in full effect.

    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.

    doubt