I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.
Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.
And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.
Let me repeat this:
The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!
edit: Bradwood has been promoted to Chief Business Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, not Chief Financial Officer, my bad
edit2: as @FormularSumo@social.vivaldi.net pointed out, even if Graham Mudd's title is "SVP of Product", the bio in his page talks about him as the SVP of Product for the Mozilla Ads division specifically. So it may be the case that he hasn't been promoted and he's just on top of the ad division. That being said, Mozilla doesn't have a Chief Product Officer anymore, and that makes Mudd the most senior product person in the entire Mozilla organization, outranking the VP that seems to be org-wide.
I’m looking forward to the long articles shedding light on how Mozilla was slowly corrupted by it’s own success and ultimately failed.
It’s just so obviously been happening a while now. Good thing Waterfox and Librefox exist.
They only exist as long as Firefox and Mozilla exist. They all depend on Mozilla for updates, patching and core functionality.
Yeah but Firefox only exists because of the large community willing to work on it. That community can go to Waterfox or Librefox and continue development under better leadership.
And Mozilla will exist as long as Google needs to have a functional opponent they can point to. Firefox is maintained on Google’s dollar.
Yep, and browsers are apparently notoriously hard to build and maintain. We’re cooked.
Because the specs are a pile of shit. I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure that google helped with that.
I can be of assistance. From the World Wide Web consortium, the group who creates the Web standards:
Yes Mozilla itself was working with Facebook back as far as 2022, and was basing this work on their telemetry which was pretty controversial back in 2018.
Damn, the web really is just a big pile of advertising shit now.
Thanks - I guess we really need to come up with alternatives.
I’m waiting to see if Ladybird takes off. They have some questionable sponsors, but you need money to get started. Hopefully they stick to their guns of being independent if they become successful.
Ladybird has both questionable sponsors and questionable leadership and past drama.
Servo is the one I’m excited for.