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@aral@mastodon.ar.al I've spoken to a number of ex mozilla employees over the years as my diatribes against mozilla have ramped up and one thing is super super clear now: regardless of any actual intent, mozilla has been essentially trapped by Google's unlimited privacy violation payments. There may be a desire to stop wasting hundreds of millions of Google's dollars every year in favor of wasting money they earned honestly, but it is never, ever going to happen.

Nothing they do will ever shake the fact that they can't even keep up with Chromium when Google pays them to do so, and that the second Google decides to stop funding them they are completely fucked.

I think the only responsible thing they could do at this point is fire the C-suite, shut down the for-profit company and let Google continue to fund the not-for-profit until they don't anymore. Stop trying to be profitable and start trying to make a goddamned browser 🤷