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1. Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 16:15:53 EST Nolan

   There are currently 4 organizations on the planet that build their own browser engine: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla. Which one of these is not like the others? That's right, Mozilla is the only browser vendor that isn't a giant tech company that already has lots of money from other sources.

   Not saying this excuses installing a rando extension for the sake of a publicity stunt, but I can see why Mozilla might try to find some… creative sources of extra income.

   1. Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 16:16:23 EST Nolan

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      For an organization like Mozilla, building your own engine is an important choice. It's expensive, but it gives them a bigger seat at the standards table and allows them to fight for things that you just can't fight for if you're merely downstream from the browser implementer.

      I've sat in standards meetings at the W3C where the Mozilla rep was the one constantly asking "What are the privacy implications of this API?" and "How could this be abused to leak user data?"

   2. Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 09:16:45 EST Rysiekúr Memesson

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      @nolan I think the reason why so many people (including myself) got so riled up with #MozillaRobot thing is *because* we understand how important Mozilla is to the healthy Web.

      Them doing shit like this (and there was more - like the time they got caught using Google's analytics/telemetry stuff) means that we lose some hope. That's what hurts.