Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

• Tehhund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure you can donate to Mozilla, are you saying that donations to Mozilla don’t accomplish what we might want? I only know a little about how much Mozilla sucks so I’m ready to learn more.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are two interlinked Mozillas: the Mozilla Foundation is what you can donate to, but the Mozilla Corporation is what develops Firefox.

    Mozilla’s recent history includes privacy flub after financial management misstep, so here’s a few links in no particular order of severity or chronology:

    • https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/nearly-a-year-later-mozilla-is-still-promoting-onerep/
    • https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/
    • https://smoshed.substack.com/p/ublock-origin-lite-maker-ends-firefox
    • https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/07/crypto-wallet-security-layer-webacy-raises-4m
    • https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/113162099798398758

    Each of these are a little rabbit hole on their own.

    Would you like to know more?

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Reminder that Krebs is an asshole who responds to criticism by doxxing the accounts of other security researchers.

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