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   Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 10:27:16 JST Stephen Farrugia

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116002119945073671

   For all us Web Developers there is the WebExtensions API detailed here (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions) on the Mozilla Developer Network made by Mozilla, but for Mozilla we have this "AI Controls" mess, the most incredible display of "what is consent...really?"

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 10:27:11 JST Rich Felker

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     • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     @vfrmedia @onepict @fasterandworse This has been Mozilla since day 1. The management have always been drunk on the dotcom era fantasy that ads and scammy partnerships are how you make free things sustainable. They all need to be ousted and replaced by responsible stewardship that doesn't care about being paid executive salaries. The real work the organization should be doing could be funded fully with 1-5% of the budget.

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 10:27:13 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

     @onepict @fasterandworse

     I've never trusted Mozilla since they made the open statement a few years ago "the modern web is funded by advertising" without any apologies, which made it clear they weren't prepared to consider any alternatives to this (and were obviously going to facilitate adtech, as static ads on a site were rarely as much of an issue in previous decades)

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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 10:27:14 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     @fasterandworse Mozilla are trying to manufacture consent to just let them do the AI, and I'm sick of them doing it and the pick-up artists vibes it's giving.

     https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

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     Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 10:27:15 JST Stephen Farrugia

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     in case it's not clear, Mozilla could have pleased *everyone* by making all this stuff into browser extensions. They've been hammered with feedback about this but have not addressed it.

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     zaire arcana (zaire@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 04:16:37 JST zaire arcana

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     • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @vfrmedia @onepict @fasterandworse decentralization and volunteering and running things on the scale of communities is how you make free things sustainable ^^ the opposite of that is an absurd stance frankly.