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Louis Rossmann: Mozilla lost touch with reality; how becoming rich through failure stunts mental & emotional growth (www.youtube.com)
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[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

A curated list of jwz’s comments on Mozilla, the organization he started 27 years ago.

Date Post
2013-10-02 W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
2020-09-23 This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla
2022-01-06 Mozilla blinked
2023-12-29 Remember when Mozilla made a web browser?
2024-01-05 My dinosaur just threw up in its mouth a little
2024-06-20 Mozilla is an advertising company now
2024-06-22 Mozilla's Original Sin
2024-10-03 Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now
[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

2020-09-23 This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla

I don't really care about DRM, users can disable it if they want.

I have serious issues with Mozilla over the highlighted comment, and it goes way past 2020. I have only really cared about Mozilla as a web browser and web standards org, and they seem to want the organization to go beyond that. That's why I don't fund them, they're not focused, so my money would go to random things I care little about.

I think a lot of people feel this way. And it really seems like Mozilla is pushing hard on this "we're not just a web browser" thing, yet most users just want them to be a web browser. So Mozilla will continue justifying things users don't want (e.g. Pocket, AI nonsense, etc) because it helps with some other initiative unrelated to the browser.

That's probably ultimately what's going to drive me away, and I think it'll ultimately lead to Mozilla failing its other missions. Once LadyBird is usable, I'll probably switch, because they don't have the same lack of focus that Mozilla does.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I’ll probably stick with FF-derivatives like LibreWolf & Mullvad unless & until Mozilla changes something that ruins things downstream. If they do, I’d consider my WebKit-based options.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Isnt mullvad dead? I sw they stopped updating

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

No, that's Mull. Mullvad is maintained.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Literally downloaded a new version of their alpha branch yesterday. Browser is not dead.

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