Mozilla’s now director of public policy once asked me, with a straight face, why I was giving them a hard time and holding Mozilla to a higher standard: “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”
But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?
Still, it’s time y’all got this.
Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.
https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/
@aral half a billion, most of which comes from Google, right? Not donations. And they allow you to disable the ads in the search bar and donate, if you think it's a better model.
I don't get all the hate for that move. Mozilla is not perfect, I get it, and the CEO earns a lot, ok. But I see many people recommending LibreWolf, which is Firefox, which suggests that they don't hate the project, but just the optional ads. Still, do they donate?
@jonasvautherin @aral Also, although I share the frustration at high CEO salaries, we *do* want valuable, community-improving organizations to have good leadership, and if someone talented will take $3M to run a nonprofit well instead of $30M to enshittifiy yet another commercial venture, that's a good thing. (I don't know enough to opine on whether that's the case here, but the principle is true.)
@msbellows @jonasvautherin Make that €6.9M. As Firefox looks set to dip under 2% usage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18b6tdp/mozilla_ceo_received_69m_salary_in_2022_a_2m/
Nothing to see here.