I'm still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork of Mozilla, preferably not domiciled in the US.

[onepict@chaos.social]

I'm still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork of Mozilla, preferably not domiciled in the US.

We have technical forks like librewolf, that's not what I'm asking for. I'm asking for new stewards of the upstream code. Although perhaps if the forks want to consider how they'd become a hard fork, with an organisational structure that would work too.

Mozilla is a product of it's surroundings. It's surroundings was silicon valley and well ‍️

Thib (@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr)

Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that. Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values. People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only. Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/ #firefox #ai #privacy

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[onepict@chaos.social]

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@javi

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

edit: Bradwood has been promoted to Chief Business Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, not Chief Financial Officer, my bad

edit2: as @FormularSumo@social.vivaldi.net pointed out, even if Graham Mudd's title is "SVP of Product", the bio in his page talks about him as the SVP of Product for the Mozilla Ads division specifically. So it may be the case that he hasn't been promoted and he's just on top of the ad division. That being said, Mozilla doesn't have a Chief Product Officer anymore, and that makes Mudd the most senior product person in the entire Mozilla organization, outranking the VP that seems to be org-wide.

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