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Mozilla has been problematic for a while now, both with personnel having some... strong political ideas, their governance, executive pay, product direction....
by hughesjj 2y ago
Mozilla has been problematic for a while now, both with personnel having some... strong political ideas, their governance, executive pay, product direction....
Ugh, I don't want to go back to a chromium based browser but I don't know how what other options I have at this point, short of dropping down to links/lynx/elinks ..
- WalterSear 2y agoI was told recently that their executives attempted to start an AI initiative without involving anyone from their data engineering team.
- smegsicle 2y agowhat's wrong with strong political ideas, as long as they're the right ones?
- nitrogen 2y ago> as long as they're the right ones? Which ones are the right ones? Yours? Mine?
- _heimdall 2y agoI honestly can't tell it the was meant sarcastically. Who defines what the "right" political idea is? And do you really want to live in a society limited only to ideas that are deemed as the "right" ones by whoever has that power?
- ulrikrasmussen 2y agoThat's kind of how society works and why we have democracy.
- _heimdall 2y agoWhat do you mean? Who defines the "right" political ideas in a democracy? My understanding is that a democracy would exist to allow the majority of a society to define what they want, and that in the US we have a democratic republic because our founders still didn't trust the public enough to leave decisions entirely to a majority vote of the public.
- ranger_danger 2y agoLadybird browser.
- rafram 2y agoNot yet usable for any real work.
- serf 2y agofirefox could have some of the wackiest politics in the world but that fact remains that Google/Chrome is one of the key linchpins for the global corporate surveillance capitalism panopticon that we have today. I still feel like it's an easy recommendation compared to the rest of the browser market.