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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by ubernostrum on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:00PM (#15280442)
Mozilla is not funded by Google anymore, and hasn't been for several years (the Google contract ended back when I was still working at Mozilla).

If you're interested, I wrote up some notes/thoughts from my experience in one of the sessions about EME and whether to implement it:

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2013/oct/16/eme/

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by zizek23 on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:44PM (#15280657)
That deal may be over but Mozilla still gets money from Google for search. Why is user advocacy so low key and half hearted, this being just one of them. What do they have to lose?

They have consistently thrown in the towel while diluting the very things that users would choose them over Chrome for.

There are many ways to exert influence in this world. Mozilla is in SV and is very much part of the culture and ecosystem. We need genuine alternatives and activism against entrenched interests.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by gcp on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:15AM (#15292153)
Mozilla still gets money from Google for search.

No.

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