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jwz @jwz@mastodon.social
2y
Mozilla is an advertising company now.

This seems completely normal and cool and not troublesome in any way.

Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a [blah blah blah] raise the bar for the advertising industry [blah blah blah] while delivering effective...
jwz.org/b/ykVg
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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@jwz @mikolaj@chaos.social This is bottom-of-the-barrel discussion of Mozilla's mismanagement.

Yes, they're poorly managed for cutting funding to open-source frameworks and firing staff, while increasing their executive's wages.

But they still need to fund their browser and most of their funding comes from Google anyway, so until we, the FLOSS community, get our shit together and fund the software we find valuable, I'll applaud our organisations becoming more independant from known abusers.
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jwz @jwz@mastodon.social
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@oceane Coming down on the "kitten meat is a price I'm willing to pay" side of things, gotcha.
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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@jwz I still wouldn't be interested in "actually, this is about ethics in kitten meat" answers — I'd be looking for concrete solutions – and FYI, I'm vegetarian; however, I'm slowly coming up with a short-term proposal, that needs to be as satisfying to hear as possible to get shared by real-life influencers. I don't want to oversell it but I need some time, this is part of why my blog is on a break.
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