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> You keep them accountable by calling them out in public

This is performative. Mozilla is accountable to a small circle of donors, and they mostly see Firefox as a monetisation vector.



> and they mostly see Firefox as a monetisation vector.

They could’ve gone the Wikipedia route and heavily asked for donations, but, instead, they’ve chosen to sell user data. That’s why I must leave. At least Google was very obviously reliant on advertising. Mozilla had no excuse other than desperation and pure idiotic evil.


What specific data is being sold?




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