Also from Jamie Zawinski yesterday: Mozilla’s Original Sin

Some will tell you that Mozilla’s worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

Those are different things and are very much in conflict. They picked one. They picked the wrong one.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    people complain when they were dependent on google and now they complain when they push an alternative to google that is a privacy friendly advertising firm.

    like it or not most sites depend on advertising; offering an alternative to google is exactly what the foundation should be doing.