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Re:Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web ... by bitwize on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:58AM (#28941633)
Mozilla is more of a progressive activist organization and fat paycheck for Mitchell Baker than it is a software development organization these days. Do not expect Mozilla to prioritize maintaining Firefox or helping its user base get off Google.
Re:Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web ... by Gargyle on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:36AM (#28941885)
An activist organization that is so intransparent that I don't even get what they are activists for.

I have only ever recognized blog posts about interpersonal matters by them which are rather cringy and don't add anything to the preexisting matter. All about first world problems.

Do you happen to know what concrete and half effective activism they actually do?

Re:Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web ... by bitwize on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:25AM (#28944007)
I don't know if any of it is "half-effective" but it's the standard social-justicey things like "women and BIPOC in tech", as well as more recently, alerting people to the dangers of the open internet and pressuring platforms to take more aggressive censorship actions: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

I think Mitchell Baker would rather chair something like the SPLC than an organization merely devoted to the development and maintenance of open source software, and that's what she's turning Mozilla into.

Re:Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web ... by skinkestek on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:07AM (#28942088)
I think they were one of the main drivers behind let's encrypt and maybe some other stuff so all is not wasted.

My main criticism is that they "milk the cow dry" by extracting so much money from the browser (which is their single largest source of income) that it starves.