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I love and use Firefox every day also, and this is too true. Bryan Lunduke has a decent skim of some of Mozilla's finances which seems relevant enough to link

I love and use Firefox every day also, and this is too true. Bryan Lunduke has a decent skim of some of Mozilla's finances which seems relevant enough to link here: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest... I wonder what we as a community can do to help preserve the independent browser and web. Mozilla does not seem at all focused to me on this goal. Theoretically it can be changed from the inside?

abacadaba 3y ago
> Theoretically it can be changed from the inside? Eich woulda never let this happen.. At least we got Brave.
pseudo0 3y ago
That's never going to happen. The Mozilla Foundation is a parasite subsisting off of Firefox's name and reputation. The end state is that they eventually kill the host. Google is postponing this to keep their anti-trust shield alive, but it's only a matter of time.
- fragmede 3y ago
  Remember when that was Apple and Microsoft? How times have changed!
- giancarlostoro 3y ago
  Kind of reminds me of the sentiment HNers and others have about how Wikipedia spends its funding.
- TimeBearingDown 3y ago
  Pretty blackpilled, but this is all rhetoric and opinion, if you’ll forgive me saying so. Do you know anything specific about Mozilla to add? I don’t know the people in the Mozilla Foundation or its current affairs at all, but I’m hoping others might. Even if there is no one there who could help change course, could the project in its entirety be “forked” if a new managing body were created and funded? I also wonder if even MS or Apple, Meta, or even an Opera or other smaller third party with a strong interest in a free web might find reason to join this hypothetical project. Advertisers other than Alphabet?

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I love and use Firefox every day also, and this is too true. Bryan Lunduke has a decent skim of some of Mozilla's finances which seems relevant enough to link

by TimeBearingDown 3y ago

abacadaba 3y ago
> Theoretically it can be changed from the inside? Eich woulda never let this happen.. At least we got Brave.
pseudo0 3y ago
That's never going to happen. The Mozilla Foundation is a parasite subsisting off of Firefox's name and reputation. The end state is that they eventually kill the host. Google is postponing this to keep their anti-trust shield alive, but it's only a matter of time.
- fragmede 3y ago
  Remember when that was Apple and Microsoft? How times have changed!
- giancarlostoro 3y ago
  Kind of reminds me of the sentiment HNers and others have about how Wikipedia spends its funding.
- TimeBearingDown 3y ago
  Pretty blackpilled, but this is all rhetoric and opinion, if you’ll forgive me saying so. Do you know anything specific about Mozilla to add? I don’t know the people in the Mozilla Foundation or its current affairs at all, but I’m hoping others might. Even if there is no one there who could help change course, could the project in its entirety be “forked” if a new managing body were created and funded? I also wonder if even MS or Apple, Meta, or even an Opera or other smaller third party with a strong interest in a free web might find reason to join this hypothetical project. Advertisers other than Alphabet?