Meta: Shut Down Your Invasive AI Discover Feed. Now
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/
#HackerNews #Meta #InvasiveAI #DiscoverFeed #Shutdown #Mozillafoundation #TechNews #PrivacyConcerns
#mozillafoundation
@skolima WTF? I've been paying for Pocket Premium subscription since 2019, specifically so that Mozilla could have enough money to keep it running. This is a catastrophe and completely undermines what was left of my confidence im #MozillaFoundation.
#Omnivore was closest we ever got to a viable Pocket alternative, and that's got bought out of existence last October. #Wallabag is probably next best.
I wish there was a robust web page epub converter, so I could read in #ReadEra or e-ink device.
https://www.wacoca.com/news/2513502/ 【セキュリティ ニュース】「Firefox 138」がリリース – 複数の脆弱性を修正（1ページ目 / 全1ページ）：Security NEXT #Firefox脆弱性修正情報 #JavaScriptURI処理の脆弱性 #MozillaFoundation #Science&Technology #ScienceNews #Security #TechnologyNews #WebGLのメモリ破壊脆弱性 #サンドボックス脱出のCVE対応 #セキュリティ #テクノロジー #ニュース #対策 #権限昇格リスクの修正内容 #科学 #科学＆テクノロジー #脆弱性の重要度別修正状況
【セキュリティ ニュース】「Firefox 138」がリリース – 複数の脆弱性を修正（1ページ目 / 全1ページ）：Security NEXT https://www.yayafa.com/2309751/ #Firefox脆弱性修正情報 #JavaScriptURI処理の脆弱性 #MozillaFoundation #SCIENCE #Science&Technology #SECURITY #Technology #WebGLのメモリ破壊脆弱性 #サンドボックス脱出のCVE対応 #セキュリティ #テクノロジー #ニュース #対策 #権限昇格リスクの修正内容 #科学 #科学＆テクノロジー #脆弱性の重要度別修正状況
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/defend-encryption-worldwide/
Mozilla has a new petition up, this time trying to fight back against governments circumventing and/or breaking encryption
#Privacy #security #Encryption #Mozilla #MozillaFoundation #Surveillance #government
Mozilla was founded on this day in 1998. 🦖
https://www.mozilla.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla
#CakeDay #Firefox #FOSS #Mozilla #MozillaFoundation #OnThisDay
Angriff auf Ende-zu-Ende Verschlüsselung
Großbritannien soll in Europa den Vorreiter spielen
Mehr dazu und Petition unterschreiben bei https://foundation.mozilla.org/de/campaigns/tell-the-uk-government-dont-break-apples-icloud-encryption/
a-fsa.de/d/3G9
Link zu dieser Seite: https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/9098-20250322-angriff-auf-ende-zu-ende-verschluesselung.html
Link im Tor-Netzwerk: http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/9098-20250322-angriff-auf-ende-zu-ende-verschluesselung.html
Tags: #Apple #ADP #IPA #GB #USA #EU #Abschaltung #iCloud #Cyberwar #Hacking #Trojaner #Verschlüsselung #Zensur #Überwachung #Polizei #Geheimdienste #Geodaten #Verhaltensänderung #Petition #MozillaFoundation
@cryptgoat
Looking for the same thing. Please warn me if you found. I don't understand how is impossible on Android to import mozilla bookmarks/history without a shitty Firesync/dont know name . Maybe at least there are a directory to find it ?
#help #android #smartphone #tips #hardware #opensource #browser #mozilla #mozillafirefox #internet #InternetHistory #migration #software #apps #privacy #gatekeeping #mozillafoundation
Given the most recent Firefox debacle, here's what I'm gonna do.
For the cost of a simple monthly wage in the range of US$ 7000 ~ 8500, I offer my services as BDFL of Mozilla for a time period of 3 years, extensible for a second term if I'm requested to.
As #BDFL I would ordain a path for Mozilla, and primarily for #Firefox , that eschews the eternal loser game of chasing Google's tail and complexity-based internet, and instead focus on or even develop an internet that's focused on the visitor and browser. Maybe taking something like Gopher or Gemini, iterating over either/both at least once to modernize them, and add first-class / native support. Restore RSS support too. But still prioritizing the values of the people who historically chose Firefox in the first place.
And, Gorhill permitting, uBlockOrigin would be integrated with the browser.
Hey, I'm offering a much cheaper service than whatever combination of exec salaries are being wasted over there at Moz.
Since 2022 the companies that profit from the #Internet have been shedding technical staff in the belief of the power of #AI to replace their #workforce. What are they replacing or redirecting this capacity with?
“Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web: The #MozillaFoundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, #TechCrunch reports.
While Mozilla is best known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation — the parent of the #MozillaCorporation — describes itself as standing up “for the health of the internet.” With its advocacy and global programs divisions gone, its impact may be lessened going forward.
“Fighting for a free and open internet will always be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it,” #BrandonBorrman, the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said in an email to The Verge. Borrman declined to confirm exactly how many people were laid off, but said it was about “30% of the current team.”
This is Mozilla’s second round of layoffs this year. In February, the Mozilla Corporation laid off around 60 workers said it would be making a “strategic correction” that would involve involve cutting back its work on a Mastodon instance. Mozilla shut down its virtual 3D platform and refocused its efforts on #Firefox and #AI. The Mozilla Foundation had around 120 employees before this more recent round of layoffs, according to TechCrunch.
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“Navigating this topsy-turvy, distracting time requires laser focus — and sometimes saying goodbye to the excellent work that has gotten us this far because it won’t get us to the next peak,” wrote Syed, who previously worked as the chief executive of The Markup, an investigative news site. “Lofty goals demand hard choices.”
#WhiteCollar / #CorporateGreed <https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs>
“#Mozilla is made up of several organizations, one of which is the #MozillaCorporation, which develops Firefox and other technologies, and another is its nonprofit and tax-exempt #MozillaFoundation, which oversees Mozilla’s corporate governance structure and sets the browser maker’s policies. Much of Mozilla’s work focused on advocating for #privacy, #inclusion, and #decentralization of #technologies, and “to create #safer, more #transparent online experiences for #everyone,” which ultimately benefit the #browser maker and its #users.
Announcing the layoffs in an email to all employees on October 30, the Mozilla Foundation’s executive director #NabihaSyed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — #Advocacy and #GlobalPrograms — are “no longer a part of our structure.””
There you go. One side of Mozilla builds the tools of the Internet, the other does… I can’t for the life of me see what. It’s the #MozillaFoundation who cant engineer the tools that are doing “deals” with others to make things safer.
The power to make change for the better of the Internet is being moved from direct impact, ie: basic technology and applied applications TO soft corporate influence through manifestos, papers, jobs and pay for influencers and collaborations with third parties…
I know what is more effective. Basic engineering and applied products because it scales.
#WhiteCollar / #Layoffs / #CorporatePolicy <https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/>
A tale of browsers, freedom and privacy
https://theprancingpony.in/display/883cc655-5967-c20d-d74a-e95315253379
📝 Mozilla might have a tech-bro infestation
https://infosec.press/brunomiguel/mozilla-might-have-a-tech-bro-infestation
Dear @mozillaofficial , I don't want any "privacy-respecting ads" (neither in my browser or anywhere else). In fact I want the whole ad-industry to burn to the ground (online, and anywhere else).
Until then, I just want privacy-focused free and open source software without any compromise or sellouts.
Debería donar a #mozillafoundation cuando Mozilla hace cosas ridículas con IA? Es muy triste que ágüelas alguien tan tesa como juliana castro leer este haciendo a eso :(
Update. @sj argues that the #MozillaFoundation contradicted its own earlier positions when it endorsed the Open Source Initiative (#osi, @osi) definition of #OpenSource #AI.
https://samjohnston.org/2024/12/18/a-forgotten-manifesto-mozilla-betrays-its-own-values-on-open-source-ai/
Lilbits: EU probes Corning Gorilla Glass for antitrust violations, Android TV and Google TV hardware requirement updates, and Mozilla Foundation layoffs
Google is lowering the minimum amount of memory required for new Android TV devices… but increasing the amount needed for Google TV. The Mozilla Foundation is laying off a significant portion of its team. Microsoft plans to launch a preview of its controversial Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs by December. And the European Union is investigating whether Corning’s exclusivity deals with phone […]
https://liliputing.com/?p=173286
#androidTv #antitrust #corning #eu #fairphone #fairphone4 #googleTv #gorillaGlass #lilbits #mozilla #mozillaFoundation #nintendo #nintendoSwitch #nintendoSwitch2 #recall
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