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Re:The cult of the free must die by Semaphor on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:25AM (#24142168)
> They frivolously spend on side-projects nobody needs.

I’m curious, what unneeded side-projects do they have?

Re:The cult of the free must die by dandellion on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:52AM (#24142367)
The new crappy address bar that nobody asked for, pocket, hubs, three different mobile browsers, some useless award and probably more that I don't remember.

Also annoying is how they constantly kill useful features like RSS or bookmark descriptions.

I use Firefox because I still like it better than Chrome and I like to support free software, but it's obvious to me that Mozilla doesn't really care about their users and they're too busy chasing shiny things. I expect they'll keep losing market share until they become irrelevant and disappear.

Re:The cult of the free must die by michaelnik on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:32AM (#24143712)
Meanwhile, to use Web Bluetooth Web (very cool and practical) there is no other option than Chrome[0].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...

Re:The cult of the free must die by thomasahle on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:56AM (#24142397)
Isn't pocket a sponsor of Mozilla? I always thought that was why it was there.
Re:The cult of the free must die by marcusverus on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:05AM (#24142481)
Pocket was a third party service when it became a default Firefox feature in 2015. Mozilla acquired it in 2017.[0] I could not find any data on what they paid.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service)

Re:The cult of the free must die by dwighttk on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:03AM (#24142454)
Mozilla bought pocket
Re:The cult of the free must die by dig1 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:43AM (#24142301)
Just go through https://github.com/mozilla and I bet you didn't hear about 90% of them. If you paginate further, you'll see most of them aren't maintained much anymore.
Re:The cult of the free must die by ColinHayhurst on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:05AM (#24142474)
Re:The cult of the free must die by sukilot on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:12AM (#24142965)
Instead of hiring devs to fix browser bugs
Re:The cult of the free must die by rubber_duck on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:44AM (#24142307)
WebThings ? There are OSS projects in this space and I don't see how they plan on capturing value for the organisation or provide value to the community by building yet another solution that currently has very weak integration with 3rd party devices.