• burgeoning@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Another day, more Mozilla FUD. I just saw the switched on Linux guy posted some too. They arent a perfect company, but lets not pretend they’re exactly like google or a mini google. It feels almost coordinated to get you to feel like all companies are compromised, so you should just use the popular thing and forget about privacy and security.

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      2 hours ago

      It is not really FUD to point out that Mozilla wastes ungodly amounts of money on projects of dubious utility instead of investing it into their browser. Their current trajectory doesn’t inspire much confidence either. Mozilla started to waste even more money on ‘AI’ features nobody asked for.

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        19 minutes ago

        Actually, their new AI thing is actually useful: stays on-device, and summarizes web pages and videos.

        But yes, they could stand to spend more money on the browser, and less on their CEO and other non-browser things.

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        32 minutes ago

        Mozilla doesn’t exist to fund Firefox. Firefox exists to fund Mozilla. It’s been that since the very fucking beginning: Mozilla is a general internet charity that makes money with a browser. It’s always been that way. It never has been any different. I may have to repeat myself: The purpose of Mozilla isn’t to fund Firefox the purpose of Firefox is to be a money-maker for Mozilla’s charitable causes.

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      2 hours ago

      The Mozilla FUD where I said I like Firefox and pointed out how many of the projects continued in some form after Mozilla ended them?