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  • Xianshi@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I’d rather they just focused on making the browser better to be honest. Let the EFF or another org do this type of work

    • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      The people who researched this topic and wrote that article are most probably not the ones working on the browser. As any company, Mozilla has departments.

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        10 months ago

        Bob I’m going to need to look into that codec bug in Firefox. Also, how’s that car review coming along?

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          10 months ago

          Damnit Bob, Firefox is still broken and we need that article on cars! Where do you think you are? Car and Driver?!? This is Mozilla, Bob! We have deadlines and if you can’t or won’t finish the editorial process while fixing the browser then you can move along to WaPo, or NYT, or Vanity Fair. Some rag outfit will take you if you cannot hack it as a hacker and investigational journalist for the MOZ!!

      • Xianshi@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        I know I used to develop for it. My point was directed at the funding . The web needs a strong alternative to chrome now more than ever. Neutering projects like servo does not help. Also most non technical people don’t even know of Mozilla and anyone that does probably associates it with Firefox.

        Anyway I’m downvoted for having a valid opinion. Whatever

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 months ago

      Mozilla is a large umbrella foundation that includes the for-profit Mozilla Corporation. The Foundation has always done plenty of work outside of the browser. I do agree that their browser development is having a ton of issues (for example, the lack of development of key features needed for the Android browser to be competitive, like a tablet UI and the slow roll-out of add-ons), but I think those are a result of flawed decision-making in the Corporation which happened independently of anything that the Foundation might be up to.