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LAURA CHAMBERS, CEO, MOZILLA CORPORATION As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising. Our hypothesis is that we n
    • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      Is this a response to the fact that they may not get paid for having Google as their default search engine? If so, I worry about a bunch of Linux distributions. It’s ironic that a company’s toxic virtual monopoly was paying for so much open software.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      2 months ago

      Eh, they’ve been speedrunning this for years, this is just the most efficient way to get to the end goal of complete ruin.

      I have a few alternative ideas, but I honestly don’t think they’re interested in hearing them.

      • ramblingsteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        I hope so. I hope there could be a future where Mozilla is purged of these people and returned to being just a browser. Not everything has to be a “platform” with a business model for MBA’s to feast on.

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        33·
        2 months ago

        Mozilla’s PPA was developed in collaboration with Facebook. While we don’t usually think of that company as advertisement centric, they are, just moreso within their own walled garden of a social network.

        parading around as pro-privacy frauds.

        Here’s a frighteningly accurate prediction from The Register, written back in January:

        …Baker notes: “We need to be faster in prototyping, launching, learning, and iterating … This requires rich data, and so we will be moving in that direction, but in a very Mozilla way.”

        Surely not slurping telemetry?

        According to the report, the “Mozilla way” is all about privacy, encryption, and keeping customer data safe. Hopefully, it will also be about innovation rather than scattering AI fairy dust over its product line.