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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:13:40 JST Evan Prodromou

   Just cancelled my monthly Mozilla donation.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:39:00 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • AlexanderMars

     @AlexanderMars Thanks for the suggestion but I have a bunch of Fediverse projects I want to support.

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     AlexanderMars (alexandermars@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:39:01 JST AlexanderMars

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     @evan just a thought but maybe those donations could go to #servo instead. https://opencollective.com/servo

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 00:52:32 JST Tim Chambers

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     @evan -- I moved over to #Vivaldi for this reason - plus how they treated their ex-CTO, and their AI strategies, plus their killing their fediverse server. Seems rudderless. And no regrets with Vivaldi.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 04:27:04 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Don Marti

     @dmarti @tchambers I'm not opposed to advertising but it's not a field that requires my charitable donations.

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     Don Marti (dmarti@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 04:27:05 JST Don Marti

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     • Tim Chambers

     @tchambers @evan Personally I'm not opposed to web advertising if done right (Kurt Vonnegut was able to quit his day job as a car dealership manager because of sales to ad-supported magazines—constructive web ads could help writers) but the way that Mozilla is going about it is more like #adfraud in the browser than like the previous "ads in Firefox" projects

     Making it easy for bad sites to "steal attribution" (claim credit for sales) creates surveillance risks to users

     https://blog.zgp.org/why-turn-off-firefox-ad-tracking/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 04:28:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • pmatteo1998

     @pmatteo1998 good for them, and I hope it works, but my charitable giving budget is for projects I believe in.

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     pmatteo1998 (pmatteo1998@mastodon.uno)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 04:28:18 JST pmatteo1998

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     @evan
     Bruh, unfortunately is the only way given that they don't have enough money and they rely on their direct competitor for revenue. So idk , to me Firefox should be paid or a subscription.

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     Sean Coates (sean@scoat.es)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 04:28:52 JST Sean Coates

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     @evan Favourited for the camaraderie, not for the content. I did this a while back, too, and it feels awful.

     We were there when Microsoft almost succeeded at destroying the Web with their browser monoculture in the late ‘90s. It’s horrible seeing Google gain ground in this same battle.