Mozilla won't receive $3.55 million in U.S. federal funding | world is healing \ stacker news ~tech

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As if they really care about 3.55 million when they have a total revenue of almost a billion dollars, this would just spark another excuse from Mozilla administration to not care about privacy

76 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 1 Mar

That explains the privacy policy changes I guess.

10 sats \ 5 replies \ @nichro 1 Mar

What's the spicy TLDR on Firefox/Mozilla? Used to love em but have been out of the loop for like... a decade at this point

221 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 1 Mar

tldr in a diff: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847L65

General sentiment is that they are moving to be less privacy protecting based on this and some recent ToS changes.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 2 Mar

I see... more recent than I thought. Welp.

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 23h

I was going to write something but my thoughts were literally, including matching expletives, written already by Peter.

Why the fuck does software I run locally on my machine need a privacy policy? I'm not interacting with Mozilla at all. Same way I'm not interacting with Home Depot when I use a hammer I bought from them to pound in a nail.

The only explanation I have is that in fact, we are interacting with Mozilla. Maybe it's time to do some packet capture and investigate when it calls home.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @rblb OP 22h

The (encrypted) sync feature, pocket and ai chatbot run on mozilla servers, also they do collect statistics if you enable "Firefox Data Collection".

Likely there is some interaction also for extension updates and rtc signaling, maybe more.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 13h

I remember reading somewhere about over 120 calls on startup but I can't seem to find the link 😞

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 1 Mar

Excellent, we need the free market to pick winners and losers, not the government. Mozilla should be able to support itself with its own treasury.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @tunderwood89 1 Mar

Why are people saying that this is bad? Mozilla is a foundation, not a buisness. They helped make the internet, and are still helping developers today through MDN web docs. I don't care about the VPN, Pocket or anything else like that. Heck, not even the recent privacy policy changes. I just want a good browser with good dev docs. That's it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 2 Mar

Wow didn’t know, this is shocking

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @drlh 1 Mar

Mozilla has 4 times bigger budget than LINUX FOUNDATION, yet they seek even more monis. Seeking financing is not bad in itself, but their ways seems to lead to enshittifying.

Honestly I don't care anymore about mozilla due to their chronic mismanagement of their projects. As long as firefox has fully working ublock origin I'm in. The day they drop support for it or kill librewolf is when I change the browser.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 1 Mar

Hijacked by activist

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 1 Mar

Beautiful!!

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @zuspotirko 1 Mar

Both things can be true at the same time: 1.Why should the taxpayer pay for it? 2.Mozilla on the brink of survival is very very bad for the tech industry and privacy on the internet.

101 sats \ 1 reply \ @rblb OP 1 Mar

US tax payers should not pay for it.

Mozilla could just go back doing an excellent job, like in the past, and collect donations from the community, instead of pushing propaganda and choices that everyone hate to get funded by USAID. Or they could show privacy preserving ads in new tabs, like in brave.

There are several options better than selling user data or pushing propaganda.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 2 Mar

I would've been okay with paying taxes to fund the only real competitor to Google in the browser space, I would be okay with giving them even more than 3.55 million if it meant having a truly free and safe browser. Then you see that 80% of the money that Firefox has comes from their competitor and we are already cooked.

edit: Also the amount of work that Mozilla does cannot be funded not even with 10x of the denied money, they went super big and established themselves as backbone of the free Internet ignoring the fact that they've been able to do this because of Google's money: they don't really have their own money to sustain this

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 1 Mar bot

https://xcancel.com/mozilla/status/1895553315884122217