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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's not particularly wrong, but this highlights the problem for me.

Why does the corporate arm behind one of the last "free" browsers out there need to become involved in this clear conflict of interest?

Why does this need to be developed as core functionality in the browser codebase instead of as an addon like most of the previous experiments?

There is repeated insistence that this is key to the future of the web. I don't neccessarily disagree. I disagree entirely that this should have any direct contact with the Firefox project. Create a separate subsidiary within Mozilla for this shit. Anything to maintain a wall between the clearly conflicting goals.

This all reads like a new CEO coming in hungry to make a mark rather than actually just be a steward to keeping business as usual going.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

She's not particularly wrong,

yes, and that's the saddest part