• lurch (he/him)
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      1 year ago

      Firefox is adding optional builtin promoted paid services tho. (VPN, email obfuscator) This stuff should be extensions. Makes me worry.

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        More than the company that literally is a for profit that makes a browser that kneecaps adblocking and puts an ad targeting protocol onto the Browser?

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          Mozilla Corporation is a for profit company that builds Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation is nonprofit.

          MZLA Technologies, the Thunderbird company, is also for profit which is why donations to them are not tax deductible.

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        Those two aren’t bad, IMO. It lines up with what people think their principles should be.

        You want something to make you worry? They’re integrating Fakespot, an AI-based review scanner that Mozilla acquired a while back, into Firefox. Never mind that industries are having problems auto-scanning content for AI generated prose…