First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?

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    8 months ago

    Mozilla makes hundreds of millions from Google. Every single person could stop donating and they would continue along just fine (Well the CEO might need to take a 10 million yearly pay cut).

    What weird is seeing people champion the enshittificstion of FOSS software.

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        8 months ago

        Eh.

        The examples Doctorow user when coining the term were two sided markets, but if you actually read the original article for understanding, rather than to “well actually” on the internet, that the process being described is much more general than that, and is one of products or services becoming worse over time so that whatever value they provided becomes increasingly shifted toward shareholders.

        This may seem weird in this case, still, because the only shareholder of Mozilla Corp is the Mozilla Foundation, but the principle still stands.

        Moreover, you sound like a ridiculous pendant, because what’s actually happening here is that Mozilla is turning Firefox into a vehicle for advertising, which means it’s fucking entering a two-sided market… You’re arguing that the sky isn’t blue because it’s night time at fucking sunrise.

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          8 months ago

          Only if you aren’t interested in a conversation where all parties have a clear understanding of what’s being discussed.

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            8 months ago

            Did someone not understand what the original comment’s poster meant with “enshittification”? It’s not like he used a completely unrelated term.

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        That’s not the difference between this and the usual kind of enshittification. The users are one side, the advertisers (and google) are the other. Nothing unusual there. The difference is that this time it’s driven by desperate grasping at straws, rather than barefaced greed.