"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
    • jetAEnglish
      23·
      5 months ago

      It turns out, if you hire executives to run your non-profit, they’re just going to use it to further their own objectives. And they don’t care about the mission.

      • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Mozilla is not a non-profit. And if they were, they are legally bound to it. It’s not optional to go by the mission if you’re a non-profit.

          • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            Yes, as I said. Mozilla is not a non-profit. Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit. But that was not mentioned. There is a clear distinction.

            • jetAEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              The Mozilla term is used to be ambiguous, I think deliberately so. So they get ZERO sympathy from critical readers when they do some BS under the auspice of “no, that wasn’t the non-profit side”. You have one reputation, you live and die by your behavior.

              The Corporation / Foundation split is great for accounting and corporate structure, sure, but its not a shield against criticism of their behavior not matching their stated missions.