Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web

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• OneRedFox@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mozilla is looking pretty cooked, NGL.

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• SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not surprised honestly, they were always a poorly run organisation that needed to go more worker owned co-op but got run like a tech startup instead.

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  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why not consumer coop instead?

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    • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’d like to say, what is that?

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    • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Either sound great to me. Co-ops are a market socialism which is better than capitalism in every way

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• alyaza@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Mozilla Foundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, TechCrunch reports.

  “Fighting for a free and open internet will always be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it,” Brandon Borrman, the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said in an email to The Verge. Borrman declined to confirm exactly how many people were laid off, but said it was about “30% of the current team.”

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• WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if the ruling against Google for paying apps etc to have their search engine be the initial default has eaten a lot of the funding Mozilla counted on

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    given that that’s where they got 85% of their money from? yeah, probably.

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• hedge@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mozilla takes donations, but they don’t fund Firefox development with that money. that’s usually what you’re home against it.

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    • master5o1@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The way you word it suggests that donations to Mozilla are expressly forbidden from being spent on Firefox. Which I doubt is true.

      But yes, many would prefer to donate specifically for Firefox development than into a general pool for Mozilla to allocate as they choose.

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  • late_night@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They do accept donations: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/

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• noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  pretty good analysis of Mozilla’s situation by TechAltar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-XYrMFb0A

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• CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s a good browser for Android?

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  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mull. Available on F-Droid. Make sure to turn on permanent private browsing and clearing data upon quit, if that’s what you want.

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    • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How does it compare to Firefox feature-wise?

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everything that isn’t Firefox is just a skin of Chromium, which is controlled by Google. There are no good options for browsers if you don’t want Firefox.

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• antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  EFF will pick up the slack.

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Remember to donate!

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• jherazob@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Person uninformed about these things here with an uninformed question: What are the chances that the Mozilla Foundation itself can be forked like the code can be?

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  • dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you magically generated enough funding, sure. But Mozilla made a deal with the devil to fund itself. Without a similar deal or nearly the entirety of the user base donating, whatever new org would be bound to fail; or at least wouldn’t be able to perform all the same functions.

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