Fair enough, and even if they did I think op in this comment chain was talking about monopoly level advertising so I guess my comment wasn’t really warranted either way.
I’m surprised to read they don’t at least hoard user data. Very un-big-tech-like of them.
Why would you ever accept this anti consumer bullshit for a slightly better screen? It might not even take a year before the current cutting edge not “the best” anymore with how fast tech cycles. I would absolutely go out of my way to get a device I can deprive of an Internet connection and still use.
Nvidia is huge on producing AI and is certainly data-hungry. Without actually knowing, I would bet it’s about as bad as anything else. Since all your data is passing directly through their servers it’s trivial for them to do whatever they want with it.
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Sure, but there’s a limited bandwidth for people’s intake of information. This in particular is no longer a cause for alarm.
False alarm
Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16 In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.
Only lasted less than a day before it was intentionally corrupted by 4chan and shut down for idolizing Hitler
As of 2023 Mozilla had over 1.3 billion dollars in reserve (thanks Google!). This is not over yet, but it will be drained pretty quickly if they keep treating a nonprofit like a typical silicon valley tech company.
Yeah you’re correct the deal was cut off late last year so it was not renewed for 2025 but it was on the radar for a couple years. It’s why the sudden sketchy rush for other sources of income so they can keep going as normal. I did make an edit to my post and changed ‘comes’ to ‘has come’.
It’s been set up to fail. Over 80% of their revenue was from that deal and Google could likely dictate whatever they wanted as part of it. That income is the only thing that even allowed for such an insane pay package for their c-suite in the first place, and so the current form of Mozilla is a direct result of all that cash. It’s supposed to be a nonprofit and now they’re basically in withdrawal because they cannot afford their insane"normal tech company leadership" salaries.
Idk how Mozilla survives this without another sugar daddy, the leadership pay looks like the biggest liability killing the company and they have to willingly give it up before the company goes bankrupt and/or becomes another ad machine.
I would really love for them to drop pocket and all their other stupid shit and just make a browser like they used to. Even just that is a huge undertaking these days though, and that is because of (again) Google’s ability to basically dictate web standards. They strung Mozilla along as a pet “look we’re not a monopoly” competitor while continuously raising the bar to entry for any competition. I think the antitrust case should have gone after web standards to allow for competition rather than basically cutting off the only real competitor, but that would have been harder to do and the actual case was based specifically on Google’s search and ad monopoly rather than the chromium browser monopoly.
Most of their income has come directly from Google, the incumbent browser monopoly. I’m full tin foil hat on this one, Google is pulling the strings here.
Idk the CEOs $6mil salary sounds more like malice to me
Using a VPN will prevent your ISP from selling your IP logs to data brokers. It also obfuscates your IP to websites you visit to make their fingerprinting less precise. All your ISP can see is that you’re connecting to/from a VPN server through an encrypted tunnel and maybe some metadata like amount of data transferred.
Hard to compare value to free stuff like encrypted DNS and an ad blocker but a VPN definitely has protections you wouldn’t get otherwise.