Mozilla is doing good overall. They are doing some fundamental work to get back the technical edge, still trying to keep the future of the platform open with WebAssembly and their products have become much more reliable now. We have to cut them some slack.
Sadly, Pocket hasn't become open-source nor has it kept its awesome personalized recommendations.
And they could cut the salaries of management instead of giving themselves raises.
Instead we got ads in the home page.
2. Developers shouldn't have to build software for the greater good by sacrificing their livelihood.
3. I am pretty sure many people building all this amazing tech can definitely get paid better in other places
4. These days when someone like Facebook fails to be bold, I would prefer to support someone like Mozilla who walks the talk.
No one is talking about the developers. Mitchell Baker received $2,458,350 in 2018. That's up from $1,035,114 in 2014.
Have you seen the incredible results which justified this tremendous raise? Personally, I haven't.
His raise is 100% justified...unless your implying that any software dev pulling in 150k would be able to negotiate a deal like that.
The 2017 deal was a 8% increase in revenue. That's a significant slow down of the increase trajectory of these deals. Meanwhile every other metrics were going down, most notably market share.
2017 also saw the rebranding and the Pocket deal go through. I still don't think it was worth a 150% increase.
I'd be happier if I knew how my data is being stored, however, since the recommendations seem to be well tailored to my interests.
I find it to be rather well-written for this sort of thing. As in, it was written with an intent to communicate what it's saying, which is the opposite of the usual.
When Pocket was first introduced in Firefox, the official party line was that it was just something temporary donated by the good people of Pocket to plug a feature hole so that you, dear users, won't suffer much while we develop a proper replacement.
And now this has somehow transformed into a vitally important revenue stream?
Not sure if it can work for Firefox, but there are enough freemium apps on mobile which seem to make it work
It sounds quite meek if the worst attack just consumes more of my battery.