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Now all we can do is convince as many people as we can to use firefox instead of putting up with this bullshit.
It's far too late for that, and it won't work anyway.
Frankly, this is where regulators are supposed to step in. They won't, but if it were working as it was intended to work, they'd have stepped in long before now.
This will probably be another case of the European Union having to save our (the U.S. and others) collective asses from corporate overreach.
With that mindset, nothing will ever get accomplished. As Louis Rossmann often says: We, the people, are who can change the culture and that's what matters most.
No, Lobbyist that have money and "good intention" that influence governments are evil. Informed Government officials are actually capable of doing stuff for the citizens.
Someone who doesn't work in tech rarely knows much about it, so those are few and far between.
Waiting for government to act is a recipe for disaster. Governments react to angry people.
I am under no illusion the challenge we face, but I ain't going to roll over, I will keep pushing. Give up if you want, but telling everyone to give up and you choose to become a stooge of the oppressors.
EU should come back to the rescue.
It's the only thing that has a chance of working. Us few Firefox users have no chance of weighing in the balance, we'll just be cast aside. And the US won't do anything, as usual.
tbh i think other government bodies should follow UN too, as far as i know they have been the only governing body that voices concern whenever tech companies become too greedy.
The EU isn't some magical force that only does good for privacy. They had their own fair share of scandals and pretty much all regulations regarding privacy and data collection conveniently omit duties and responsibility for governments and such. They just realized that in an information age information is power. And they want that power for themselves and not some large state-like corporations. Which can be a win for us, sometimes, but it's not a silver bullet.
This in particular is actually something they might like, because it would allow them to ensure "safe" environment for ... whatever they want. With convenient tracking and anything else should they desire so.
If our regulators didn't have loaded diapers and ask stuff like "how to convert to .jpg", they surely don't see the issues here.
You mean the nonprofit company that is dependent completely on a contract with google to stay solvent? Ya, firefox will definitely never be pressured by google... Bruh
@AvailableFill74 @nottheengineer source 🕵🏻♂️❔
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
“One thing Mozilla does have going for it is a lot of money—more than $1 billion in cash reserves, according to its latest financial statement. The primary source of this capital is Google, which pays Mozilla to be the default search engine on the Firefox home page. Those payments, which started in 2005, have been increasing—up 50% over the past decade, to more than $450 million, even as the total number of Firefox users has plummeted. In 2021 these payments accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.”
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf