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Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Eh.

The examples Doctorow user when coining the term were two sided markets, but if you actually read the original article for understanding, rather than to "well actually" on the internet, that the process being described is much more general than that, and is one of products or services becoming worse over time so that whatever value they provided becomes increasingly shifted toward shareholders.

This may seem weird in this case, still, because the only shareholder of Mozilla Corp is the Mozilla Foundation, but the principle still stands.

Moreover, you sound like a ridiculous pendant, because what's actually happening here is that Mozilla is turning Firefox into a vehicle for advertising, which means it's fucking entering a two-sided market... You're arguing that the sky isn't blue because it's night time at fucking sunrise.