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   ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 06:06:45 JST ploum

   Mozilla has a new CEO who:

   - Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
   - Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
   - Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
   - Is all-in on AI

   That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

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     Tim Stickland (sticklandtim@mastodon.green)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 10:08:16 JST Tim Stickland

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     @ploum
     #Vivaldi

     https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 23:21:25 JST Rich Felker

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑
     • Cwiiis
     • AstroBoat

     @loptimist @Cwiiis @brouhaha @ploum It's not that open source necessarily means it's good or can be trusted.

     It's that private enterprise necessarily means it's bad and can't be trusted.

     Being open source is a necessary condition not a sufficient one.

     Flow just failed the lowest bar.

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     AstroBoat (loptimist@piaille.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 23:21:27 JST AstroBoat

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑
     • Cwiiis

     @Cwiiis @brouhaha @ploum True, but I wouldn't automatically trust open-source project either, telemetry being a major concern for privacy. For Firefox, I'm using forks but I didn't read the code nor patches to ensure that everything is fine and dandy. Trustworthiness stands until it didn't I guess.

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     Cwiiis (cwiiis@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 23:21:28 JST Cwiiis

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     • AstroBoat

     @loptimist @brouhaha @ploum I wouldn't expect anything from private enterprise to respect my privacy - and being closed source means there's no reasonable way to verify any claims either. If open-source and privacy-respecting are your two metrics, you'd still be much better off with Firefox.

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     AstroBoat (loptimist@piaille.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 23:21:29 JST AstroBoat

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑
     • Cwiiis

     @Cwiiis @brouhaha @ploum It seems to be, i included them because they're developing a new rendering engine like ladybird and servo

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     AstroBoat (loptimist@piaille.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 23:21:30 JST AstroBoat

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

     @brouhaha @ploum We don't need Google and the like for that :
     - https://ladybird.org/
     - https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/
     - https://servo.org/

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     Cwiiis (cwiiis@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 23:21:30 JST Cwiiis

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑
     • AstroBoat

     @loptimist @brouhaha @ploum Am I missing something with Flow? Just seems to be a closed-source engine from a private company?

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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 23:21:31 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

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     Google appears to have a lot of money. Maybe we could convince them to fund an open-source privacy-respecting browser.
     @ploum