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I had a low expectations from Mozilla, but holy shit. (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 months ago by 101@feddit.org to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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At that stage they are not hiding that they are a ads and AI company anymore.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The Ads position:

We’re growing the Mozilla Ads product team, passionate about display advertising in Mozilla products that is privacy-respecting and values-aligned. You will be one of the lead engineers that will craft, build, and be responsible for the core systems, both front-end and back-end, that support advertising in clients (Firefox, MDN, Pocket, Fakespot, etc). You and your team will be the domain guides when it comes to advertising, providing direction and shepherding to various product teams across Mozilla.

Yeaaaah fuck off Mozilla, we don't want Ads.

They Slogan

Why Mozilla?

At Mozilla, we’re serving humanity—by maintaining a safe, open internet—while also helping the individual humans employed here to reach their personal and professional goals. [...]

I guess that's no longer the case then?

[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

When you don't have a business plan you choose ads.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Stick your hand in your pocket and send them some money then.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I would advise withholding any donation to Mozilla until they allow you to fund Firefox development, rather than going in a pool that will probably end up in some random venture capital investment into an AI firm.

Or a cryptocurrency one.

Yeah, Mozilla invested in fucking cryptocurrency.

https://world.webacy.com/welcome-to-webacy-3-0-built-for-defi-users-and-all-digital-asset-holders-to-protect-their-wallets/

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Well I consider stopping donating to them.