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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 02:36:33 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   > wanting Mozilla to be against for-profit corporate control of the web
   
   Yeeaaah. Snowball chance in hell, might as well ask Oracle to license Solaris under MIT.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:13:06 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Like Mozilla is a "foundation" (as in board-controlled funds, there's no members) and a silicon-valley corporation in a trenchcoat.
     So unsurprisingly you get: LLMs, Adtech sold as privacy-respecting, acquiring corporations and failing to open-source the technology, removing RSS/Atom feeds discovery, …
     
     And bonus on the FOSS side of things:
     - Hard-requiring Firefox extensions to be signed by Mozilla which is effectively Tivoization;
     - Making DRM integrated into Firefox, which btw triggers when JS libs merely check support, instead of being an extension/plugin you explicitly have to add like for Ruffle (or Adobe Flash back then)
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     Hugo 雨果 (whynothugo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 04:12:02 JST Hugo 雨果

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     @lanodan Firefox itself (e.g.: the package that you get when downloading from Mozilla's website) isn't really even open source. It includes plenty of proprietary components.

     I keep to the same conclusion: we need an activist+engineer driven Foundation that can fund maintenance of an open source user-oriented fork.

     Not just a "patching out spyware" fork; but one that diverges and thrives long-term.

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