Mozilla is sending e-mail asking for donations.
Mozilla also has become an advertising company.
You gotta decide #Mozilla, which one it is. You cannot be both.
I am sad to see the layoffs at the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla plays an important role on the Internet. I may not always agree with the choices they make, but they still play an important role.
#Mozilla#Firefox#Vivaldi #browser#Windows#Macos#Linux#Computer
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/
No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems. For example: your personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate emergency.
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@pluralistic You may not need a separate app for RSS.
#RSS is available by default in the #Mozilla#Thunderbird #email client. #RTFM
#Mozilla issued an urgent #Firefox update to fix an actively exploited flaw
https://securityaffairs.com/169590/security/mozilla-firefox-actively-exploited-flaw.html
#securityaffairs #hacking
https://securityaffairs.com/169590/security/mozilla-firefox-actively-exploited-flaw.html
#securityaffairs #hacking
@craignicol Know what you mean - and I moved from #Mozilla to #Vivaldi for just this reason.
Hate to see the crazy turmoil happening at Automattic, hope they reorient, but if not, there are plenty of CMS's and #Ghost@ghost is building out its ActivtyPub features in a very promising way.
There are no more reasons to use, Mozilla Firefox.
Better Privacy?
Mozilla is working closely with Facebook, Google, and is now a market research and advertising company. Furthermore, they're now including every possible AI in their web browser, which calls out even when disabled.
Better Ad blocking?
Mozilla is an ad company and recently gave the uBlock development team a hard time. uBlock Lite is not coming back to Firefox, and the uBlock developer is considering not to develop two builds in the future. Furthermore, even with an ad-blocker, by default, Firefox now monitors ad performance.
Better web browsing?
With a single digit market share, even governments are forgetting about Firefox. The United States, tax office (IRS), not so recently, experienced issues when loaded with Firefox.
It's the principle?
As we have established, there is no principle. Firefox is no different from Chromium and Mozilla, no better than Google or Microsoft.
#Firefox#Mozilla
Better Privacy?
Mozilla is working closely with Facebook, Google, and is now a market research and advertising company. Furthermore, they're now including every possible AI in their web browser, which calls out even when disabled.
Better Ad blocking?
Mozilla is an ad company and recently gave the uBlock development team a hard time. uBlock Lite is not coming back to Firefox, and the uBlock developer is considering not to develop two builds in the future. Furthermore, even with an ad-blocker, by default, Firefox now monitors ad performance.
Better web browsing?
With a single digit market share, even governments are forgetting about Firefox. The United States, tax office (IRS), not so recently, experienced issues when loaded with Firefox.
It's the principle?
As we have established, there is no principle. Firefox is no different from Chromium and Mozilla, no better than Google or Microsoft.
#Firefox#Mozilla
What to replace Firefox with?
Vivaldi web browser is everything Firefox should have been the last decade or more.
Yes, Vivaldi Browser is based off of the open source code, chromium, but it does not follow Google's lead, supporting both v2 and v3 browser extensions (meaning uBlock will still work). Vivaldi, includes their own ad and tracker blocker, is not owned and managed by an ad company, and is the ONLY web browser to be A.I. free (does not include an AI).
The latest version, 6.9, even added support to ensure uBlock will continue to work.
#Vivaldi#Firefox#Mozilla
Vivaldi web browser is everything Firefox should have been the last decade or more.
Yes, Vivaldi Browser is based off of the open source code, chromium, but it does not follow Google's lead, supporting both v2 and v3 browser extensions (meaning uBlock will still work). Vivaldi, includes their own ad and tracker blocker, is not owned and managed by an ad company, and is the ONLY web browser to be A.I. free (does not include an AI).
The latest version, 6.9, even added support to ensure uBlock will continue to work.
#Vivaldi#Firefox#Mozilla
There are no more reasons to use, Mozilla Firefox.
Better Privacy?
Mozilla is working closely with Facebook, Google, and is now a market research and advertising company. Furthermore, they're now including every possible AI in their web browser, which calls out even when disabled.
Better Ad blocking?
Mozilla is an ad company and recently gave the uBlock development team a hard time. uBlock Lite is not coming back to Firefox, and the uBlock developer is considering not to develop two builds in the future. Furthermore, even with an ad-blocker, by default, Firefox now monitors ad performance.
Better web browsing?
With a single digit market share, even governments are forgetting about Firefox. The United States, tax office (IRS), not so recently, experienced issues when loaded with Firefox.
It's the principle?
As we have established, there is no principle. Firefox is no different from Chromium and Mozilla, no better than Google or Microsoft.
#Firefox#Mozilla
Better Privacy?
Mozilla is working closely with Facebook, Google, and is now a market research and advertising company. Furthermore, they're now including every possible AI in their web browser, which calls out even when disabled.
Better Ad blocking?
Mozilla is an ad company and recently gave the uBlock development team a hard time. uBlock Lite is not coming back to Firefox, and the uBlock developer is considering not to develop two builds in the future. Furthermore, even with an ad-blocker, by default, Firefox now monitors ad performance.
Better web browsing?
With a single digit market share, even governments are forgetting about Firefox. The United States, tax office (IRS), not so recently, experienced issues when loaded with Firefox.
It's the principle?
As we have established, there is no principle. Firefox is no different from Chromium and Mozilla, no better than Google or Microsoft.
#Firefox#Mozilla
Really sad to see Mozilla give up on their Mozilla.Social server. We all need to work together to grow the Fediverse.
Should any of you need a new home, you are welcome at Vivaldi.social.
At @Vivaldi we love the Fediverse!
More and more are joining. I urge you all to help your friends join as well!
https://vivaldi.com/blog/social-web-foundation-launches-supported-by-vivaldi/
#fediverse#Mastodon#Twitter#BlueSky#Facebook#Computer#Mozilla
The migration from #Firefox to #Vivaldi has been pretty effortless. The big annoyance is that I'm used to clicking on the orange Firefox icon in the bottom bar and I have to keep closing it. I like the Workspace feature of Vivaldi, which I had already been using for projects. My big questions at this point are memory management with tabs open in various workspaces and how do the workspaces accommodate having multiple Google accounts open? I post videos to several Youtube channels. #Mozilla
There are two open source web browser projects that have their own Mastodon instances.
Unfortunately, Mozilla has decided to shutdown their Mastodon instance by the end of the year.
https://mozilla.social/
But Vivaldi Web Browser has confirmed that they will keep maintaining their Mastodon instance.
https://social.vivaldi.net/
#Mozilla #firefox #web #browser#Vivaldi #social #mastodon #instance
#Mozilla has announced that they are closing their Mastodon instance.
But at least, they are hiring a lot, which is nice.
Like:
- Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- Principal Product Manager, Generative AI
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- …
Wait, are they hiring for something else than AI ?
Glad you asked:
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
- Client Analytics Manager
- Product Policy Manager, Ads
- …
The shutdown of mozilla.social is a good reason for folks to consider #selfhosting - but also, highlights that it's nice to be able to migrate your account when something happens (if given enough time).
Mozilla, unfailingly, will make the wrong strategic decision every time.
#Mozilla Wants You To Love #Firefox Again - #Slashdot
Well, I never stopped loving it! 😀
Well, I never stopped loving it! 😀
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/08/11/1635254/mozilla-wants-you-to-love-firefox-again
I love #Firefox, but this is troubling. And now would be the time for @Vivaldi to double down on privacy and easy of use...
https://lifehacker.com/tech/why-you-should-disable-firefox-privacy-preserving-ad-measurements
@tchambers I wouldn't dispute that #Mozilla goofed up here, but based on my best understanding of what #Firefox PPA actually does, I believe that headline (and a good chunk of the article) is extremely misleading, to the point of being irresponsible. The data that advertisers get looks to be stuff like "approximately 125 people saw <a particular ad> on <a particular website> in the past two weeks before purchasing <a particular product>", and only in a very loose interpretation could that be called "your data".