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Mozilla Foundation lays off about third of staff

• gnabgib 2y ago
  Discussions: (154 points, 8 hours ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054867 (128 points, 6 hours ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055979
• orionblastar 2y ago
  Mozilla is incompatible with many of the sites I use. So I have to open them in Chrome or Edge. Because of this people are no longer using or donating to Mozilla.
  • znpy 2y ago
    in fairness, mozilla has been squandering money on a ton of dumb shit over the last years, rather than focusing on the fcking web browser. simple example: that pocket thing. who cares about that ? that's incredibly out of scope for the mozilla foundation.
    • mossTechnician 2y ago
      Pocket is old news too. I want to know more about FakeSpot (the AI shopping company) and Anonym (the ad company). Both of those have been integrated into the Firefox browser as a shopping toolbar and, IIRC, "Privacy Preserving Advertisement telemetry"