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You have to wonder what Mozilla are doing with $400m a year.

by siquick 4y ago

boomboomsubban 4y ago
Building and maintaining a full browser isn't cheap, if it were there'd be more browser engines.
- userbinator 4y ago
  There is some hope... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 In other words, I don't think Mozilla is making good use of that money at all.
guywithahat 4y ago
They've put improving their browser on hold to focus on their new passion: fighting decentralized software https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen...
- tamrix 4y ago
  I wonder who else would benefit from fighting against more decentralisation.. Maybe big tech? The same big tech that also who funds Mozilla?
- sfink 4y ago
  (1) That's Mozilla Foundation, which doesn't produce a browser in the first place. And (2) that article is not even anti-decentralization. It's just calling out that the same old stuff is happening in that world too, and the same tools that (poorly) combat that stuff won't work in the decentralized world. The only value judgement is against emergent effects like radicalization; nothing against decentralization itself. What's the problem again?
  - guywithahat 4y ago
    > That's Mozilla Foundation, which doesn't produce a browser in the first place And I suppose Meta doesn't produce a social network? Also the fundamental analysis of the article is that we need to have centralized control over decentralized networks (which they refer to as networks of trust and abuse audits), making the decentralized part inept. If you can no longer run a decentralized service without getting permission from a centralized authority, it's not really a decentralized service
RunSet 4y ago
It would sure be cool if they fixed this bug. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521 Note: The spiciest comments are labelled "admin reviewed" and collapsed by default.

You have to wonder what Mozilla are doing with $400m a year.

boomboomsubban 4y ago

Building and maintaining a full browser isn't cheap, if it were there'd be more browser engines.

userbinator 4y ago
There is some hope... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 In other words, I don't think Mozilla is making good use of that money at all.

guywithahat 4y ago

They've put improving their browser on hold to focus on their new passion: fighting decentralized software https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen...

tamrix 4y ago
I wonder who else would benefit from fighting against more decentralisation.. Maybe big tech? The same big tech that also who funds Mozilla?
sfink 4y ago
(1) That's Mozilla Foundation, which doesn't produce a browser in the first place. And (2) that article is not even anti-decentralization. It's just calling out that the same old stuff is happening in that world too, and the same tools that (poorly) combat that stuff won't work in the decentralized world. The only value judgement is against emergent effects like radicalization; nothing against decentralization itself. What's the problem again?
- guywithahat 4y ago
  > That's Mozilla Foundation, which doesn't produce a browser in the first place And I suppose Meta doesn't produce a social network? Also the fundamental analysis of the article is that we need to have centralized control over decentralized networks (which they refer to as networks of trust and abuse audits), making the decentralized part inept. If you can no longer run a decentralized service without getting permission from a centralized authority, it's not really a decentralized service

RunSet 4y ago

It would sure be cool if they fixed this bug. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521 Note: The spiciest comments are labelled "admin reviewed" and collapsed by default.