I also commented on this: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-ho...
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Maybe I have reading comprehension issues, because it seems to me like it isn't worse than selling users off. Mozilla sold its users... to itself. That's really bad, right?
I am definitely in the minority, but I am upset that Reddit plans to monetize my writing by selling it to LLM companies (without an opt-out).
You're about a decade late: https://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus-torvald...
That isn't true though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey#Use
That is weird - works fine on my end. What happens?
Sure you can: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-boo...
The UK seems to disagree, for example: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/charities-and-res...
They may attract people with good intentions as well - or do you have to be starving to be pure of heart?
PS: I don't see how they haven't promoted "any useful aims" - Firefox continues to exist, Rust exists, Let's Encrypt exists, and they are healthy. Those seem like promotions of useful aims.
>The foundation is failing at its goals, they shouldn't be trying to make a profit.
Profit is just what is left over after what needs to be paid for is spent. Would you rather they have no money left at the end of every day? How do you imagine that that works?
>Mozilla restructured its security functions "to better ensure the security of Mozilla and its users," Mozilla said of the cut. "Some positions were eliminated as a result of this effort, but the teams responsible for the security of the Firefox browser and Firefox services were not been impacted."
Seems relevant.
>They've set up a situation where they are going to be corrupted. A billion dollars in assets attracts charlatans and they won't have sufficient defences to stop the money being siphoned off into pet projects and general shenanigans. There will probably turn out to be fraud involved sooner or later.
It is very confusing what you want - you want Mozilla to be publicly traded so that you can share in its success (and open itself up to being corrupted), yet have an issue with it not being publicly traded?
Do you just want to be upset?
Really? Workplace deaths seem absolutely acceptable, as far as I can tell: https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/23/in-a-case-of-a-trucker...
In any case, I checked out Chromium, and the equivalent setting is labeled "Page zoom" and affects extension popovers as well. As far as I know, extension popovers are not web pages, so your expectation (and Chromium's behavior) seem to be a bug - either in the settings UI, or in the way the zoom setting affects extension popovers.