Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What’s next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type “McDonald’s” before I can actually navigate there?

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      While this analysis is somewhat convincing, let’s not forget that for now Firefox is all we have. Important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

      In my ideal scenario, Mozilla becomes like the Wikimedia Foundation. Which has somehow also accumulated “Scrooge McDuck amounts” of cash but seems to be on a firmer footing and better managed.

      • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        It’s amazing what you can pull off with free labour and CIA funding. I also find it funny how that donation banner still shows up every year when they’ve already accumulated so much capital.

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozilla-is-an-advertising-company-now/#comment-249969

      Preemptive subtwit.

      Let’s say you run a nonprofit animal shelter. And for some reason, some people feel you should be seeing hockey-stick growth, but the donations aren’t covering it.

      So you decide to start up a side-line of selling kittens for meat.

      Then you will inevitably have someone stroking their chin and saying, 'Yes, yes, but how could they afford to stay open if they weren’t selling kitten deli slices?"

      Some might say – maybe you aren’t an animal shelter any more. Some might say.

      • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        It’s a real shame what’s happened to Mozilla. Maybe Trump will add browser software to the list of sanctions on China and we’ll end up with a Deepfox in a year or two.