I started using Firefox shortly before version 1.0 hit the streets in 2004. It is the latter that controls the source code for Firefox. The Foundation was launched in 2003 with financial and other assistance from AOL and the Mozilla Corporation was created two years later. The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit that owns the taxable subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. If Mozilla is going to survive, the management needs to be fired ASAP with no compensation what so ever, products that nobody wants need to be stopped and Mozilla needs to be limited to its core competence, not only so that it can survive on less revenue (perhaps by donations only), but also so focus can be where it needs to be. Mozilla is NOT the "trusting" organization it used to be. In 2018 Mozilla's top executive was paid $2.4 million and his payments has more than doubled the last five years! Yet, Mozilla had received more that enough money. Still, in 2020 Mozilla cut about 25% (250 people) of its global workforce, blaming the corona virus impact on economies as something that "significantly impacted their revenue". In 2018 Mozilla got $435.7 million in revenue from search engines who pay to be the default search option in Firefox in different parts of the world, mainly Google, but also Yandex and Baidu. The problem is that Mozilla is extremely mismanaged. Maybe that's because of the way it previously saved the Internet from the "evil dominance" of Microsoft Explorer. Some people naively look towards Mozilla Firefox as the "savior" and alternative to the Chrome hegemony. This is a problem because Google, being the advertisement company it is, are planing to implement the deceitful and threatening Manifest V3. Google Chrome currently dominates the market share of web browsers. Following is an excerpt from an article on titled So-called modern web developers are the culprits: Because of the partnerships it forms, Mozilla is very much complicit in these activities. Mozilla claims to be a privacy and free speech advocate while simultaneously cultivating relationships with a laundry list of corporations, networks and foundations which zero regard for privacy or freedom.Īs a result of Snowden, many are now painfully aware that governments, intelligence communities and Big Tech are closely and constantly monitoring our web activities and selling, analyzing or storing the data they collect. These kinds of partnerships could hardly be more at odds with statements Mozilla has made in its manifesto, including " Committed to you, your privacy and an open Web" and the current " Mozilla puts people before profit". Other nefarious Mozilla partners currently, or have included in the past, Microsoft, Telefónica, LG Electronics, Sony, Verizon, Cisco, Cloudflare, the Omidyar Network, the Ford Foundation, a funder of domestic terrorist groups, and the Open Society Foundation run by George Soros which is another funder of domestic terrorist groups. The Mozilla Foundation rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars annually, the vast majority of which is generated as a result of their partnerships with various ethically challenged and proprietary search engine companies such as Google, Yahoo, and others (see Firefox Search Engine Cautions, Recommendations). While this perception is indeed accurate in many cases, it is wildly inaccurate in others. Some of us may tend to associate the free, open-source software (FOSS) community with individuals or small organizations that selflessly give away their work while expecting little or nothing in return. You might also want to read Mozilla showed me what the interwebs look like and now i have mad cow disease. To understand why i continue to lose a huge amount of respect for Mozilla as a company, we'll explore what Mozilla is and some of the controversial decisions it has made and unethical projects it has undertaken. My admiration for Mozilla and its flagship product, the Firefox web browser, continues to diminish over the years.
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