Mozilla Foundation lays off about third of staff

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(154 points, 8 hours ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054867

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Mozilla is incompatible with many of the sites I use. So I have to open them in Chrome or Edge. Because of this people are no longer using or donating to Mozilla.

in fairness, mozilla has been squandering money on a ton of dumb shit over the last years, rather than focusing on the fcking web browser.

simple example: that pocket thing. who cares about that ? that's incredibly out of scope for the mozilla foundation.

Pocket is old news too. I want to know more about FakeSpot (the AI shopping company) and Anonym (the ad company). Both of those have been integrated into the Firefox browser as a shopping toolbar and, IIRC, "Privacy Preserving Advertisement telemetry"

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