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I am shocked. Shocked! /s

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Mozilla 2012: We're winning the browser war and saving the web. You're welcome.

Mozilla 2017: Competing with Chrome is hard. What if we break all existing extensions and never let people replace them all?

Mozilla 2021: Through inclusiveness and the power of positive thinking we will facilitate leadership towards in-depth studies of what we can do to improve social media.

Mozilla 2024: Running a small mastodon instance is just too hard, we give up.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Just a little comment on 2021: It seems disingenuous, from their perspective. Steve Teixeira, In a lawsuit, is claiming that not only did Mozilla try to get him to fire employees who were disproportionately minorities, but they were within a group that was producing a profit for Mozilla.

In other words, Mozilla might have been preaching inclusivity publicly while practicing exclusivity privately.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Corporate only pay lip services to the public? I'm so shock! Shock I tell you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

what is even happening right now

[–] possiblylinux127 12 points 1 day ago

Color me shocked

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Mozilla 2017: Competing with Chrome is hard. What if we break all existing extensions and never let people replace them all?

This is the one that broke my back. Understandable that XPCOM extensions had to go, but leaving nothing to replace them, and then going on to push their trash UI redesigns without giving us any recourse to change them back - that was just unforgivable.

Then again, that was still well before they started pushing spyware in their own browser, so in retrospect, those were very quaint times!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Mozilla in early 2000s: We're glad we've broken you away from Internet Explorer's chains. You're welcome.