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The Mozilla company (corporation and foundation) with its flagship product/project Firefox were historically good, but things turned sour as users migrated elsewhere and the company's leadership made countless self-harming moves. We covered some of them in the following posts, grouped by theme rather than chronologically:

Privacy

=> A Supposedly Privacy-Loving Mozilla Keeps Slurping Up 'Talent' From the Zuckerberg Espionage Hive (Propelled Directly Into Executive-Level Management)

=> “Internet Villain” Mozilla. Can Enough Really Be Said?

=> Mozilla Keeps Changing Users’ Settings to Blast Misinformation (or Present Dishonest Ads) at Them in New Tabs

=> Mozilla Hires Yet Another Executive (Senior Vice President) From Facebook, So Forget About Privacy

=> Age of Digital Deception: Startpage, Mozilla and the Linux Foundation Are Enemies of Your Privacy

=> Mozilla Does Not Respect Your Privacy

=> Mozilla Shames Itself and Harms Its Reputation by Stating That “Comcast Has Taken Major Steps to Protect Customer Privacy”

=> Mozilla Will Relay Firefox User Input (Even Keystrokes) to Microsoft and the NSA Through Yahoo in the US

=> Facebook and Other Surveillance Capitalists Won’t Save Mozilla From Google Dependence

Mismanagement

=> Mozilla is GAFAM, Just Look at Who Runs the Company

=> Mozilla CEO Increased Her Salary From 2.5 Million Dollars to Over 3 Million in One Year (10+ Times More Than Her Peers’ Salaries) Despite Poor Performance and They Still Want Donations

=> This Month Mozilla Firefox Reached Its Lowest Share (Just 3%), But CEO Baker Made a Fortune (Especially When Mozilla Sank)

=> Mozilla Waters Down Its Vision of The Internet

=> Late December Data: Mozilla Firefox Market Share Fell From About 4% to 3% This Year (25% Decrease)

=> Meme: Mozilla Does Not Trust Web Sites, But It Trusts the CIA Enough to Hire Managers From It

=> Mozilla Hired Top-Level Managers Directly From the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Can They Be Trusted on Privacy?

=> The Sad Story of Mozilla Keeps Getting Sadder Because Mozilla’s Managers Abandoned Users and Chose Companies as Their Clients

=> Firefox Cannot be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management

=> Video: Getting Off the Web and Away From Mozilla Firefox

Technical Deficit

=> The World Wide Web is Proprietary and Mozilla Contributes to That

=> You Cannot Remove Google-Controlled Web Browsers From Debian

=> Mozilla Firefox in the Windows Store is an Unnecessary Distraction

=> Mozilla Allows Facebook to Sabotage Messenger Live Video in Firefox for Three Years, Then Takes a Swipe at Me for Calling Them Out

=> Mozilla Firefox Takes Another Step in the Direction of Being Malware With “Firefox Suggest”

=> Mozilla Has Turned From Technical to Marketing

=> Firefox ESR 91 Creating Massive Headache for Debian 11 (GNU/Linux)

Censorship

=> Mozilla Is Not to Be Trusted and Firefox is Becoming a Mass Censorship Tool

=> ‘Hacker’ ‘News’ ‘Flags’ Accurate and Factual Article About Mozilla, So Let’s Say More About Mozilla…

=> Mozilla Should Focus on Improving Thunderbird and Fixing Bugs Instead of Eradicating Innocuous Words

=> Beware Mozilla and Rust, They’re Not Friends of Free Software or Even of Free Speech

Microsoft Connections

=> Meanwhile, at Mozilla, You Have to Sign Into Microsoft to Use BugZilla…

=> Regrettable Acts of Self-Harm: OpenMandriva and Mozilla Being Outsourced to Microsoft Proprietary Software and Monopoly

=> Mozilla Hires From Microsoft for Mozilla’s Board

=> Mozilla Foundation Harder to Trust After Microsoft Endorsement

=> Quick Mention: Mozilla Detoxicated from Microsoft Influence

=> Mozilla’s 2020 Vision

DRM

=> Mozilla Cannot Claim to Teach People About the Web While Facilitating, Defending and Even Promoting DRM

=> DRM (Proprietary Software) Already Makes Mozilla Firefox Broken, Unreliable, Undependable (Dependent on Binary Blobs)

=> The Web is Becoming More Proprietary and Means for Accessing the Web Likewise (Now With DRM and With Limited — by Design — Compatibility)

=> Microsoft Software Patents in Codecs, Web Font DRM, and Likewise-HP

=> Pushing Back Towards ‘Libre’ (Freedom), Partly as an Act of Defiance/Resistance Against a World Wide Web Which Gravitates Towards Endless Spying and DRM

=> DRM on Text in Mozilla Firefox Not Ruled Out

Misc. and Old

=> It Was Mozilla — Not Google (or Chrome) — That Liberated the World Wide Web From MSIE Monoculture and O/S Vendor Lock-in, But Firefox is Likely Dying

=> Firefox Becomes as Morally Reprehensible as Apple, Facebook, or Uber

=> Mozilla Unofficially Joins ECIS and Opera in Opposition to Microsoft’s Deal in Europe; Microsoft Poisoned Firefox

=> Mozilla News: Less Microsoft, No Persona, More Mono, and Less Intrusive Addons

=> People Trust Mozilla, Show Confidence Regarding Security and Privacy

=> Mozilla is Fighting for Us

=> Mozilla a Victim of the MPEG-LA Cartel

=> Mozilla Sells Out

=> As Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich Can Put an End to Mono and Intrusive Ads in Firefox

=> Tor Compromised by Microsoft Windows, Not Mozilla Firefox

=> Todd Simpson From Mozilla Joined an Angry Patent Troll, IBM Tries to Warp Debate About Software Patents to Focus Just on Trolls

=> Microsoft Updates Windows 11 to Stop People From Escaping Edge with EdgeDeflector

=> Microsoft Accused of “Sabotaging Firefox”

=> After Brendan Eich Comes Chris Beard

=> New Claims That Brendan Eich Got Abused and Pushed Out for Opposing DRM, Not for Opposing Gay Marriage Some Time in the Past

=> Mozilla’s Rob Sayre Claims to Have Revealed More Internet Explorer 9 Benchmark Fraud From Microsoft

=> Mozilla Does Not Endorse Microsoft’s Search, Media Distortions to Blame

=> Mozilla Should Denounce Microsoft Windows, Not Just Proprietary Web Browsers

=> Software Patents Not a Done Deal in New Zealand, Mozilla Weighs in

=> Mozilla Gains More Credibility by Hiring Xiph.org Founder Monty Montgomery

=> Mozilla and Many Other Companies Are in Trouble as Silicon Valley Bubbles Are Bursting

=> Removing Mozilla’s Firefox and Installing LibreWolf and/or Brave, Instead

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