Also from Jamie Zawinski yesterday: Mozilla’s Original Sin
Some will tell you that Mozilla’s worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.
Those are different things and are very much in conflict. They picked one. They picked the wrong one.
part of the reason I haven’t done anything right there. what is there to switch to? Chromium? Where they are actively killing adblockers?
Why are you applying the Wait And See philosophy to Firefox but not to Chrome?
Seems a bit… Reactionary.
Because Chrome has already announced they are killing adblockers with manifest V3, and they have been very public about that for years.
Firefox just announced 2 weeks ago they are supporting manifest V2 & V3, and going on to support adblockers.
Did they actually say that?
I think we need to Wait and See, to give the ad company the benefit of the doubt. And by “the ad company,” I’ll let you figure out whether I’m referring to Mozilla or Google.