I looked into donating to Mozilla, and (as always) the first question I asked was “what will this be spent on?”
It turns out it wouldn’t go to software development, so I did not donate:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/a...
Even worse, they’re spending the revenue they do get in wildly irresponsible ways.
The AI initiative makes no sense. Currently, dozens of industry leading groups are doing a great job converting unlimited Chinese govt grants, monopoly rents, and VC money into open infrastructure and open weights
Targeted advertising is fundamentally unethical, regardless of whether it respects privacy. Examples:
- A friend struggled with prescription drug addiction and repeatedly relapsed due to targeted ads.
- Entire industries are built on targeting people with gambling problems.
- Companies like Cambridge Analytica explicitly target mentally ill people to change election outcomes and dismantle democracies.
Anyway, I wish they’d spin off Firefox and related stuff (Rust made sense, I think FirefoxOS did too), and abandon the rest of their “mission”.
It turns out it wouldn’t go to software development, so I did not donate:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/a...
Even worse, they’re spending the revenue they do get in wildly irresponsible ways.
The AI initiative makes no sense. Currently, dozens of industry leading groups are doing a great job converting unlimited Chinese govt grants, monopoly rents, and VC money into open infrastructure and open weights
Targeted advertising is fundamentally unethical, regardless of whether it respects privacy. Examples:
- A friend struggled with prescription drug addiction and repeatedly relapsed due to targeted ads.
- Entire industries are built on targeting people with gambling problems.
- Companies like Cambridge Analytica explicitly target mentally ill people to change election outcomes and dismantle democracies.
Anyway, I wish they’d spin off Firefox and related stuff (Rust made sense, I think FirefoxOS did too), and abandon the rest of their “mission”.