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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by dessant on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:39PM (#33631907)
Fun fact: Mozilla projects are now developed in part by Cognizant Softvision, including Firefox for Android. Their employees are everywhere in Mozilla repositories, and their numbers seem to have increased since 2020, right after Mozilla fired a quarter of its workforce.

https://www.cognizantsoftvision.com/blog/pedal-metal-mozilla...

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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by alfiedotwtf on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:27PM (#33632514)
This pisses me straight off. Someone needs to fork Mozilla and bring it back to its hayday
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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by propogandist on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:17PM (#33634088)
they went woke, and are on the path to go broke. Sadly, they’re the only mainstream competition to Chrome.
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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by waste_monk on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:49PM (#33634330)
> and are on the path to go broke. Sadly, they’re the only mainstream competition to Chrome.

Is it overly cynical of me to wonder if this is Google's doing? Setting someone to infiltrate Mozilla's management and sabotage it, with the long-term goal of killing all serious non-chromium alternatives.

I don't know about the woke thing, I figure it's more likely to be about removing ad-block friendly API's in Manifest V3 (and presumably even more hostile changes in some future Manifest V4).

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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by sdf4j on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:08PM (#33634840)
Nobody wants firefox to stay around more than google. Its one of their few escape cards in an antitrust trial for browser monopoly.

And the woke thing is non sense.

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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by userbinator on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:51AM (#33635460)
Nobody wants firefox to stay around more than google. Its one of their few escape cards in an antitrust trial for browser monopoly.

Google wants Firefox to stay around, but in a form that's much closer to Chrome. Of all the browsers that still have significant userbase remaining, Firefox is an "anomaly" in that it's one the user has more control over, and Google is slowly trying to change that.

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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by willywanker on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:44PM (#33699822)
Already happened years ago, if you want the old Firefox with XUL extension support, full themes and zero tracking as it was before they started copying Chrome in 2011, give Pale Moon a try. It's an independent fork, the last independent browser left, with its own rendering engine Goanna that is a fork of Firefox's Gecko.
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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by udkl on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @08:12PM (#33633586)
This is a #TIL to me. I'm not sure I would trust these Mozilla projects going ahead.
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Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ... by csande17 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:58AM (#33635503)
Luckily, if https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA_SoftVision_Team is any indication, they're mostly babysitting test suites and reviewing submissions to the add-on store and stuff. (That and developing Firefox for Android, but Firefox for Android has sucked and included tracking SDKs for years now.)
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