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After Mozilla introduced “Allow web sites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement”, I was out for good now. I moved to forks like Floorp, LibreWolf or Waterfox.
No I didn’t overrated. Users where opt-in in ad tracking by default after that Firefox update. Users were not notified about this. And “privacy-preserving ad measurement” is misleading on purpose, I don’t understand why you would fall for that too.
This all happened when Mozilla bought an ad company called Anonym. I’m fully done with Firefox now. I moved to a Firefox fork.
But they are forks and they rely on Firefox development. Using them is fine, but with Mozilla funding and keeping up with browser development, they’d be poor
Its a bit like Brave taking Chromium, changing a few lines and saying “we built a browser”.
I’m assuming because they don’t have those AI engineers. I don’t agree with this or AI, but diversification isn’t something that can be ignored.
They need to focus on browser and bet on things that could succeed in the future. Winding down those bets that failed (like 3d visual worlds) is sensible.
Of the 60 they are laying off, how many of those work on Firefox?
Mozilla is only focusing on AI stuff.
Ah, the hate-chorus when the people making the only browser keeping choice alive does… Literally anything.
After Mozilla introduced “Allow web sites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement”, I was out for good now. I moved to forks like Floorp, LibreWolf or Waterfox.
Yeah I read about that and it’s in no way a breach of privacy. So you overreacted, probably without even researching what you were reacting to
No I didn’t overrated. Users where opt-in in ad tracking by default after that Firefox update. Users were not notified about this. And “privacy-preserving ad measurement” is misleading on purpose, I don’t understand why you would fall for that too.
This all happened when Mozilla bought an ad company called Anonym. I’m fully done with Firefox now. I moved to a Firefox fork.
But they are forks and they rely on Firefox development. Using them is fine, but with Mozilla funding and keeping up with browser development, they’d be poor
Its a bit like Brave taking Chromium, changing a few lines and saying “we built a browser”.
I’m not sure why all the down-votes… But I’m not lying… Look at: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/. Or https://digiworld.news/news/65190/mozilla-invests-30m-to-launch-mozillaai-and-redefine-the-next-era-of-ai. There are literately millions invested into AI by Mozilla.
And they are mostly hiring AI engineers as well: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/listings/
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I’m assuming because they don’t have those AI engineers. I don’t agree with this or AI, but diversification isn’t something that can be ignored.
They need to focus on browser and bet on things that could succeed in the future. Winding down those bets that failed (like 3d visual worlds) is sensible.
Of the 60 they are laying off, how many of those work on Firefox?