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  • This rhetoric that Mozilla is entirely dependent on Google to survive needs to die because it’s completely misleading.

    Google is not the only company that will pay for that default search spot, they’re just the highest bidder and in the past, other companies have paid the fee (such as yahoo).

    Google paid Apple literal billions for the same thing on iOS and nobody is claiming Apple is dependent on Google: both Mozilla and Apple are just happy to take Google’s money.

    You don’t need some big conspiracy to explain what’s going on here when the real answer is surprisingly simple: Mozilla is poorly run and it’s leaders have repeatedly dropped the ball over and over.






  • People blame Google for the death of jabber because of one blog post from a disgruntled contributor but the truth is jabber was never popular and Google chat died as well.

    Jabber was a mess, most of the clients were barely compatible with Each other and it was a wild west of feature support. Some clients were well featured with the ability to send richer messages, but typically only worked with a specific server and the same clients. Jabber did a crap job at making sure clients and servers interacted properly with each other and didn’t push the standards quickly enough, forcing clients to do their own thing.

    Which is all Google did, they went their own way because nobody used jabber and the interoperability was causing more harm than good. It didn’t work, Google talk died and many years later clients like WhatsApp took over instead.




  • I’m on the side of “automate it all and stop whining”, but I do think it’s important not to so readily dismiss the thoughts and opinions of those this directly affects in favour of the opinions of the security researchers pushing the change.

    There are some legitimate issues with certain systems that aren’t easily automated today. The issue is with those systems needing to be modernised, but there isn’t a big push for that.