Post B1QEBNNe6aRCSOwI8O by fabio@manganiello.eu
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 (DIR) Post #B1QEBNNe6aRCSOwI8O by fabio@manganiello.eu
       2025-12-19T23:40:28.694441Z
       
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       New #Mozilla CEO: “Blocking ad-blockers in #Firefox could bring in an additional $150M in revenue“.Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and the only folks who still use it regularly are exactly those who don’t want ads constantly shoved in their faces, nor trackers to suck up every valuable detail about them.And they are willing to go the extra step and use a browser that is less supported than the overwhelmingly Chromium-based crowd out there.Take ad blockers away (and, most importantly, take away Manifest V2 extensions), and those few remaining users will just dwindle away to Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium/Cromite/Vanadium, or to support Ladybird/Servo, before you even finish saying the words “profit margins”.And of course their collective hallucination with AI has now crossed into the realms of ridicule. Nobody knows exactly what kind of new useful features will be added nor how those will solve problems that users want to solve. All we know is that “AI is coming”, embedded in a lot of low-value features that nobody asked and that some product managers put together just because someone at the top of the food chain asked to “put AI in their product”, and with literally zero chances of competing against the AI features provided by the browsers of companies like Google and Microsoft who can afford to invest into AI 4-5 order of magnitude more resources than Mozilla.I’m wondering why Mozilla seems so committed to this mission of firing dumb CEOs just to hire someone who is even dumber and detached from reality than their predecessor.https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QEBOzy5agbTXsPVQ by h4890@alive.bar
       2025-12-19T23:46:31Z
       
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       @fabio Surely the situation must be similar to when Nokia hired an old Microsoft executive, who obviously had orders from Microsoft to take down the company. The new CEO surely must be a google plant with orders to finally take down Firefox.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QEa3Fk4lDNGx0aES by fabio@manganiello.eu
       2025-12-19T23:47:36.983738Z
       
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       @h4890 oh I really hope that this is the case.Otherwise I have to simply admit that every single CEO Mozilla has had in the past 5 years is genuinely a complete imbecile.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QEa4h4icflk0nvTU by h4890@alive.bar
       2025-12-19T23:50:59Z
       
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       @fabio This is the truth! And overpaid on top of that. But in established organizations, when that amount of money is involved, is not about intelligence. It is about playing politics and being ruthless. My encounters with CEO:s throughout the years have confirmed this opinion.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QKdU3VTpDIzdIzJo by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-12-20T00:57:18Z
       
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       @fabioFortunately even they say in that article that it's not a good idea.