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I strong disagree that Mozilla is a good company at heart. They are horribly mismanaged on every level. They have burned hundreds of millions of dollars to pr
by saas_co_de 9y ago
I strong disagree that Mozilla is a good company at heart.
They are horribly mismanaged on every level.
They have burned hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a second rate browser that has seen its market share collapse.
They took hundreds of millions from Google and in exchange unquestioningly supported Google's advertising and surveillance agenda.
They have consistently failed to introduce new features that would actually benefit new users.
They blame the "standards process" for their lack of innovation and features that benefit users when they know that the standards process is a b.s. game. For profit corporations break standards whenever it benefits them. Firefox is the only browser that follows standards written by Google, Microsoft, and Apple, while the other 3 break them, or force through their own changes whenever it benefits them.
Apple blocked 3rd party cookies and Microsoft defaulted to Do Not Track while Firefox kept doing Google's bidding to collect their checks. Just one example of many.
In the place of real innovation, being truly independent, and actually standing up for users Mozilla gives people dumb crusades like Net Neutrality.
Firefox could have used their market share to develop truly innovative features, like what Opera tried. For that matter they could have partnered with Opera to create standards for a true open web, but of course they never did that because the Google bucks were just to sweet for them.
Mozilla has been a failed organization for a long time. This is only the latest reminder.