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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Now that Google isn’t allowed to pay them default search engine money, I think this was expected.

Ideologically I think it’s a good thing the US government is challenging Google’s monopolistic practices. Unfortunately, that money was a massive percentage of Mozilla’s income.

It really was short-sighted of them to put so many eggs into one basket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Google hasn't been forbidden from paying Mozilla - yet, at least. They've only been ruled a monopolist, but what consequences they will face is yet to be determined, and then the appeals process will follow, so it'll be a couple of years before there's any potential impact.

Mozilla has also explicitly tried to have other baskets to put eggs in (Relay. VPN, Monitor Plus, Hubs, etc.), it's just that none of those have been as successful.

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