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bignose<p>And there it is: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@mozilla" class="u-url mention">@<span>mozilla</span></a></span> loses its Advocacy division, and the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenWeb</span></a> loses what was once a champion.</p><p>“We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it” says the Mozilla Foundation. Oh yeah, laying off workers is “revisiting” how to do the work, all right.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MozillaCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MozillaCorp</span></a> is nakedly a profit-seeking <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> promotional body today.</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2024/11/5/2428912</span><span class="invisible">4/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs</span></a></p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jwz" class="u-url mention">@<span>jwz</span></a></span> puts it bluntly:</p><p>“They&#39;ve decided who their customers are, and it&#39;s not you, it&#39;s people who build and invest in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>surveillance</span></a> advertising networks. But in a &quot;respectful&quot; way.”</p><p><a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/mozillas-ceo-doubles-down-on-them-being-an-advertising-company-now/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jwz.org/blog/2024/10/mozillas-</span><span class="invisible">ceo-doubles-down-on-them-being-an-advertising-company-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MozillaCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MozillaCorp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MozCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MozCorp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UserHostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UserHostile</span></a></p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@mozilla" class="u-url mention">@<span>mozilla</span></a></span>, you *must* change <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MozillaCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MozillaCorp</span></a> leadership. They are selling out the entire user base, to the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ArtificialStupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtificialStupidity</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>grift</span></a>.</p><p>&gt; Anonym is building technology that can provide more privacy-preserving infrastructure for data sharing between advertisers and publishers.</p><p>Bullshit. Stop handing your users to surveillance creeps.</p><p><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im</span><span class="invisible">proving-online-advertising/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MozCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MozCorp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UserHostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UserHostile</span></a></p>