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Re:Firefox 3rd Party Installer Campaign – Mozilla Community ... by JohnFen on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @10:20AM (#40788988)
It is very sad, but also a rational response. Mozilla still has a better reputation than most, but the industry overall has been punching people in the face for a long time now.

That people's instinctive response to pretty much anything coming from the big players is mistrust and backlash is entirely understandable. It's the result of learning from experience. On the whole, the industry has burned a significant amount of trust and benefit of the doubt.

Re:Firefox 3rd Party Installer Campaign – Mozilla Community ... by shrimp_emoji on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @11:11AM (#40789629)
Mozilla is now an ad company, like Google.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_b...

So, yep, my trust has gone to zero. It doesn't seem difficult to not become an ad company, but money corrupts.