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I'm surprised how unfocused Mozilla is as an organization. They make Firefox, which is great. It's a product that's really important to the world, but it's stru

by lacker 4y ago

I'm surprised how unfocused Mozilla is as an organization. They make Firefox, which is great. It's a product that's really important to the world, but it's struggling to maintain its market share. So why are they doing all these unrelated things like funding AI challenges? I look at their blog and you would never realize this is the people responsible for Firefox. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/ Is their mentality that Firefox is actually not that big a deal? Do they get most of their funding for non-Firefox reasons? Nothing else they do seems even remotely comparable in importance, but I don't know how they see things.

dangerlibrary 4y ago
Something something eggs and baskets
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- dandellion 4y ago
  Mozilla get 90% of their money from Google, 9% from advertisement, and 1% from other sources (like the paid VPN). They have no incentive to improve their browser and they keep removing features, which is probably why their browser usage share has almost disappeared.
PaulHoule 4y ago
Mozilla is almost the poster child of the rudderless NGO. Every little thing they do, from running an office in the homeless capital of the world, to running a circle-jerk competition like this one (no objective criteria for success), makes me wonder if Firefox is going to go away sometime soon. I wish the EU decided to take privacy seriously and either fully funded Mozilla or forked it. The cost would be a fraction of the harm done by those cookie popups. In general A.I. safety looks like a scam. For one thing there are all of EY's front groups such as lesswrong, effective altruism, longtermism, etc. Until ChatGPT came along A.I. safety was necessary to make A.I. look more important than it really was. Now, the story that "company X fired some/all of its A.I. safety staff" serves to legitimize the whole thing (obviously they are saying something important and dangerous to power, therefore A.I. safety is relevant.)

by lacker 4y ago

dangerlibrary 4y ago

Something something eggs and baskets

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dandellion 4y ago
Mozilla get 90% of their money from Google, 9% from advertisement, and 1% from other sources (like the paid VPN). They have no incentive to improve their browser and they keep removing features, which is probably why their browser usage share has almost disappeared.

PaulHoule 4y ago

Mozilla is almost the poster child of the rudderless NGO. Every little thing they do, from running an office in the homeless capital of the world, to running a circle-jerk competition like this one (no objective criteria for success), makes me wonder if Firefox is going to go away sometime soon. I wish the EU decided to take privacy seriously and either fully funded Mozilla or forked it. The cost would be a fraction of the harm done by those cookie popups. In general A.I. safety looks like a scam. For one thing there are all of EY's front groups such as lesswrong, effective altruism, longtermism, etc. Until ChatGPT came along A.I. safety was necessary to make A.I. look more important than it really was. Now, the story that "company X fired some/all of its A.I. safety staff" serves to legitimize the whole thing (obviously they are saying something important and dangerous to power, therefore A.I. safety is relevant.)