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I’m gonna say it louder for the folks in the back: Mozilla is not what you think it is. Mozilla is not what they say they are. Mozilla is just another for-profit Silicon Valley tech company that has a not-for-profit doing its PR.

#mozilla #BigTech #SiliconValley #bullshit eupolicy.social/@ilumium/11430…

in reply to Aral Balkan

I remember someone linking this some time back:
forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelh…

and I immediately disregarded it for same reasons. Apparently they are different "entities" which I don't fully understand. But potato, potato.

in reply to Aral Balkan

@alice “Thunderbird is entirely supported by donations” likely means “donations” from major corporations.
in reply to Václav Vančura

@vancura @Vivaldi That’s the recommended alternative to Firefox, a browser engine made by Google and reskinned by Vivaldi?
in reply to Václav Vančura

@vancura @Vivaldi There’s no perfect browser, and it’s good to hold Firefox to a high standard along with all the others, but context matters.

It seems like there are two primary options: either a browser based on Chromium or one based on Firefox.

And the Chromium family already has more than 70% market share, creating a kind monoculture.

Maybe one day there will be a strong third option based on LadyBird or something else, but that’s not today

in reply to Václav Vančura

@vancura @Vivaldi Orion, WebKit-based, is interesting. It claims to support some Firefox and Chrome extensions.
in reply to Aral Balkan

an alternate interpretation of this is that some people just really love to misrepresent what was said because shittalking Mozilla gives you all the likes and boosts on social media. And conveniently, there's no transcript or recording available that would clearly show that.