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For some time (2 - 3 yrs?) I've worried about the "veteran tech" folks who've taken senior roles at Mozilla.

Putting folks from #Google, #MS, #Salesforce, #Airbnb, #Meta, etc in charge seems antithetical to Mozilla's mission of "building a better internet."

I'd installed FF when Google was paying users to install FF circa 2005.*

And after 20 years, I switched to Vivaldi early this year.

* Haven't found much info about this bounty program except for a Slashdot post in 2005:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/11/05/1436226/google-paying-for-firefox-installs

EDIT: much more info about the referral program here

https://leonidasv.com/til-google-paid-websites-for-referring-firefox/

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@onepict@chaos.social · 7 days ago

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 🤷‍♀️

https://mamot.fr/@thibaultamartin/115548809564345011

Drew Crecente (they/them)

@crecente@games.ngo replied · 7 days ago

@onepict

For some time (2 - 3 yrs?) I've worried about the "veteran tech" folks who've taken senior roles at Mozilla.

Putting folks from #Google, #MS, #Salesforce, #Airbnb, #Meta, etc in charge seems antithetical to Mozilla's mission of "building a better internet."

I'd installed FF when Google was paying users to install FF circa 2005.*

And after 20 years, I switched to Vivaldi early this year.

* Haven't found much info about this bounty program except for a Slashdot post in 2005:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/11/05/1436226/google-paying-for-firefox-installs

EDIT: much more info about the referral program here

https://leonidasv.com/til-google-paid-websites-for-referring-firefox/

Nicolas Fressengeas boosted

Jocelyn

@cyclotopie@mastodon.gougere.fr · 3 weeks ago

"l’ensemble des comptes ouverts chez les fournisseurs américains ( #Amazon, #Airbnb, #Netflix, #Paypal, etc.) sont immédiatement fermés. Les sociétés de livraison dont le capital est américain cessent de livrer les #colis commandés…une réservation hôtelière prise pour un séjour en France a été bloquée par la plateforme Expedia, …l’interruption possible des moyens de paiement qui transitent par les réseaux #Visa ou #Mastercard [et] virements bancaires via … #WesternUnion".

cc @fresseng

Nicolas Fressengeas

@fresseng@fediscience.org · 4 weeks ago

Quand les sanctions internationales émises par Washington imposent une vie déconnectée à un magistrat français

https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/nouveau-monde/quand-les-sanctions-internationales-emises-par-washington-imposent-une-vie-deconnectee-a-un-magistrat-francais_7545724.html

> Suite à un décret de Donald Trump contre la Cour pénale internationale (CPI), le juge français Nicolas Guillou n'a plus le droit d'accéder aux services numériques de certaines firmes américaines.