• Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. But taking on controversial topics because we believe they make the internet better for all of us is a key feature of Mozilla’s history. And that willingness to take on the hard things, even when not universally accepted, is exactly what the internet needs today.

    But you’re not doing the hard things. You’re doing the easy thing. Capitulation to surveillance capitalism is the easy thing.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market… even when not universally accepted, is exactly what the internet needs today.

      Every fucking tech corporation ever has said this.

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        3 months ago

        I write this at least once a day - I fucking hate business people / CEOs