It's almost like the Soviets said they wanted to infect capitalism and destroy the west. Straight up a parasite that jumped from a husk of a nation they already sucked dry on to the next.
Corporate America is making a profit for shareholders by offering a service that in demand. These activists are just siphoning money into personal projects and padding their wallets without offering an actual profitable service. Basically they're going to leach the company into the ground and move on to another one eventually. Rinse and repeat like so many others.
You can tell just how bogus this is because South Africa has degenerated to the point that they can no longer keep the lights on, so "digital" anything is bogus from the gitgo.
@@bug5654 according to cloud flare, just under 1% market share. Personally I think it's the best browser because it has all the features and compatibility of Chrome but a low level ad and tracker block which makes it way better at not being detected and can't be killed by Google.
I've been using Firefox and Thunderbird since they became available after Netscape Navigator went the way of all good things. I've also donated because I used the software. Sayonara!
as the age of firefox comes to its non-technical queer motivated climate driven end, it makes room for the birth of a new, non-political technically focused browser project, ladybird.
@@kevinmcfarlane2752 Yeah, feels like the world will collectively never learn the necessary lessons about gatekeeping. Everything just keeps going through the same cycle over and over again.
This feels like tunneling - something we had a lot in Czech republic in 90’s after switching to democracy, when many formerly state owned companies were tunelled out of money and assets by profiteers
linux kernel also will probably be fortked by finns,east europeans and russians+chinese ... biden exec order banning russians and chinese contributing was hillarious af. its like blowing ur own brains out... a country wich is completely dependant on H1B brain visas....... american tragicomedy never ceases to amaze me
I was a loyal Firefox user for about 20 years, but thanks to one of your recent videos about Firefox, I've made the switch to Vivaldi. Just want to say thank you.
Lol, you went for Vivaldi too? I switched like two weeks ago because the performance on some javascript-infested websites was dreadful. I'm on quite ancient hardware.
So far it's all Chromium or Firefox based. What does Vivaldi do that makes you think it's worthwhile? Afaik, it's very much chromium based, which is worse than anything Firefox based offers unfortunately :/
I was a longtime Firefox user and switched to Vivaldi via Opera about three years ago. If you were attracted to Firefox by its superior customisability, then Vivaldi is probably the best Chromium alternative.
@@magicalnoodles See my reply. Unless you especially hate Chromium on principle then Vivaldi is the most customisable and feature-rich of the Chromium alternatives. So it's a logical choice for Firefox power users. The alternative is to stay within Gecko and hope that the Mozilla team is able to maintain it going forward, or else the "community" will have to step up.
@@kevinmcfarlane2752 The prospective loss of 80% funding of Mozilla is what prompted me to look for a replacement. I like the level of customization with Vivaldi. Plus, it's more than just a web browser, you can check your email, calendar, and you can add feeds. There is a xkcd feed which delivers a funny comic about twice a week.
Not only that. $50k amount also seems to be the standard maximum amount of money which often doesn't get flagged in a bunch of banks for inspection. This is trying to be below-the-radar transfer
@@CommanderRiker0 Applies to grievance industries in general. For example, BLM is most certainly a money laundering scheme, to the extent that the derogatory "Buying Liars Mansions" gained foothold and is well-known. Anything built on "agree with me or you're a bigot" is prime territory for corruption.
I would just like to point out that Firefox still has no Windows/Linux support for HDR. And a lot of streaming services dont even give you a 1080p stream but limit you to SD quality. I dont even want to mention WebGPU support... Firefox becomes more and more unusable in comparision to other browsers. I dont really see how Mozilla can get out of the pit they are digging right now.
@@guytech7310 yeah literally all software does that... you're clearly not in the tech industry lol :D EU hjas GDPR laws, but i bet companies just ignore them until they get caught, then pay some small fine.. and everything goes like usual....
ceos milking company, while developers gets nothing. just think if a genuine developer who is interested in Mozilla was made ceo and just double his current salary, not millions . that person could actually made the company better
I don't think so. Developers are great at developing. Not many are great at managing a company. Management skills take time to build. Bad management is often guys who are really good at their jobs but not great at managing. Once they're in charge of a team, they know all the ways to slack off, but they don't know how to address it or how to improve the team even though they've thought about it in the past. Reality meets fantasy and suddenly those solutions they though of don't work in practice. Then they get grumpy and bitter or just try to wing it with bad results. Also, the CEO is on call 24/7. A good CEO is worth way more than double the salary of a developer. They make or break the company regardless of what the plebs want to believe. I mean we're looking at the results of a bad CEO and its horrendous what's happening to this company.
@@randallsanchez3161 The biggest problem with your statement is that the vast majority of managers and corporates are not great at managing companies either, which is exactly where Mozilla is now. Consider Ms. Baker, jacking up her pay while contributing arguably nothing. Your statement is just the same worn-out excuse for "we gotta place the incompetents somewhere, so why not the C-Suite?" So much better to have someone with at least some actual technical chops and system knowledge in charge; they can also actually fill in if there is turnover. In this case, all the technically competent have fled, and mostly what's left are McManagers who, although they answer to the CEO, apparently can't actually DO much, other than tick all the exact same boxes you mentioned about bad technical managers, and hire more managers in attempt to fill the competence gap, thus metastasizing their inefficient ranks while turning their organization into an overly complex, cubicled tower of babel. And here we see the self-evident decline from precisely your paradigm. And, btw, very, very few CEOs I've seen in 30 years are actually on call 24/7(maybe one). Or even 8/5 for that matter. Get real.
It seems like the executives in the foundation are taking as much money out of the organisation as possible, before their money stream dries up. The only "reinvention" seems to be middle-class people reinventing themselves into millionaires by stripping out as much cash as possible.
It seems that the corporate model of running a business ends up exploding every time. They begin fine, with investors helping to launch an idea, but after a while, the CEO and investors seem bent on mining as much of the assets out before it all collapses from bureaucracy, ineptitude and poor quality.
Asking generally: Isn't there any kind of law with regards duty of care? If there isn't, what is to stop a board simply robbing a non-profit blind of it's donations...?
@@destari5917 how would anyone in their right mind would employ a person who is publicly known to use company funds for obvious money laundering? 😀Am I being naive?
If you have a company which has the primary job of coding a web browser together, trying to prove that coding is bad for whatever they claim it's bad for, it makes you wonder what the hell is going on here.
I've absolutely no regrets at ending my financial support and use of Mozilla products back when Brendan Eich was forced out. A cynical person might look at Mozilla and see two things happening until the money runs out: 1. Executives grabbing as much cash as they can. 2. Money the executives can't personally trouser gets funnelled into their activist causes while it lasts.
So let's assume that Mozilla is going down in 2025. What are good alternatives to Firefox and Thunderbird that don't depend on the code base of those Mozilla products continuing to be maintained?
@rarefruit2320 The company is being run like a money laundering operation. They are spending almost nothing on Firefox and Thunderbird. They are in danger of losing 80% of their revenue. I think those are good reasons for concern.
Brave, ungoogled chromium, or strip down spooky chromium features yourself. That or hope Ice Cat or Floorp picks up the slack of Mozilla. Edit: Forgot to mention brave's News function is a RSS reader that you can customize. Then you have Mutt for email on the terminal. Newsboat is an rss reader for the terminal. Then Kmail from KDE and Geary from Gnome. The arch wiki has a massive list of programs separated into categories. Even if you aren't on arch you can use it to discover new programs then look them up on debian or whatever package manager you're using.
Here's a maybe-not-so-crazy idea. Given how Mozilla gets most of their money from Google, what are the chances that Mozilla gets told where to funnel money?
Yeah something smells very fishy. I am slowly moving away from Firefox, but still a Thunderbird user. I dont want ideology to drive my tech choices however it seems like Mozilla is really on the wrong path.
With your focusing on exposing the corruption greed and woke BS these companies are doing I can see why you are banned from some of the stuff. Eventually you will get charged with hate speech. This is why I subscribed to your channel.
when i see this behavior from mozilla it really makes me think there's a lot they don't tell us there's someone out there controlling mozilla like a puppet and assuring them the money will keep coming insert whatever dei conspiracy you want, there's something like that going on
About Sub-Saharan Africa, doesn't the Gates Foundation also have their hands on the AI deployment and the political spheres? I wonder if Mozilla is investing in the same initiatives.
I'm using Waterfox for now, but eventually it's core codebase will go away. Could we set up a "consortium" of Mozilla-derivatives (Waterfox, Librewolf, Thunderbird, Betterbird, and even further offshoots like PaleMoon and Epyrus)? Can we set it up so it won't eventually devolve into a self-serving behemoth?
@BryanLunduke Can you do a FOIA request to the Mozilla foundation to find out what businesses or organizations that money is going to in Africa? It would be a great piece of investigative reporting perhaps.
@@xpusostomosThe correct pronunciation of Mozilla is 'Mow-zi-luh', according to both videos published by Mozilla itself, and the pronunciation guide provided by Google. I don't think I've ever heard Mozilla pronounced with a 'tz' sound other than by Lunduke, but the fact that there's at least one other person out there who's mispronouncing it in a similar was suggests it was just an mistake, rather than something more interesting. Thanks for humouring me, much appreciated! ❤
@@Beonid fair enough... I guess people make up their own pronunciation rather than go looking for official guidance. So we have Lai-nucks, Li-nucks, Li-nooks, Lai-nooks, etc. Linus himself doesn't care. We have Moscow, Moskva, Ki-ev, Keev, etc it's normal
Isnt Mozilla supposed to be non-profit? So why is the exec being paid as if they made profits? Why is there no funding towards making the core products of Mozilla like Firefox better than before, and to an extent that part of the internet that Firefox still have some influence?? That is a guaranteed winning move because people actually use Firefox, it only benefits a lot more when people use a better Firefox. Where is Servo?
Mozilla literally destroyed itself. Literally. And I was a user from even when it was Phoenix. Terribly run. Hates its users. You couldnt destroy a brand harder if you even tried.
this is what happens in the late stage of any company when the psychopaths take over and all the talent leaves. RIP Mozilla
narcissist leftists, lol
@@MagnusNemo-xc5nx It's a sad reality that people that claim to represent the common good are often just highly manipulative socialites.
Start up the rotors......
@@MagnusNemo-xc5nx The correct word is neoliberals.
seems a lot like what happened to "certain" countries when they were taken over by globalists. weird huh
Running it just like the rest of modern corporate america, like criminals.
It's almost like the Soviets said they wanted to infect capitalism and destroy the west. Straight up a parasite that jumped from a husk of a nation they already sucked dry on to the next.
Corporate America is making a profit for shareholders by offering a service that in demand. These activists are just siphoning money into personal projects and padding their wallets without offering an actual profitable service. Basically they're going to leach the company into the ground and move on to another one eventually. Rinse and repeat like so many others.
Yep they know its over, so the top execs are stealing everything they can, before they lose their job.
Stupid RUclips put a climate change advisory on this video 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
because he's talking about carbon footprints and environmental impact. this entire video is garbage.
@@overtoke How dare someone notice corruption when it is not ideologically expedient for you
@@ataraxia77777 this guy is angry they donated to charity
I blocked it manually. I hate Wokeipedia.
@@overtoke I don't like it either, because I want them to focus on Firefox and open source.
Embezzlement. The word is embezzlement.
And money laundering.
@@tyrgoossens Yup, just passing donations through their books back to the "rightful owner" through charity shells. Nothing to see here.
You can tell just how bogus this is because South Africa has degenerated to the point that they can no longer keep the lights on, so "digital" anything is bogus from the gitgo.
Yeah this actually reeks of it.
Let's hope so, automated dealing of social justice sounds much more nefarious than that.
Welp, RIP Mozilla. I will remember this when fanboys complain about "Google" killing Firefox.
Google killed the internet. Or I would be watching lunduke videos on a home page or several older video platforms it hid
"You have done that yourself!"
"I HATE YOU!"
Plebs killed Firefox when their tiny brains began to default to that awful Chrome browser.
@hochhaul Firefox killed firefox when they turned into a circular firing squad. How's Brave doing again, that browser started by the Firefox founder?
@@bug5654 according to cloud flare, just under 1% market share. Personally I think it's the best browser because it has all the features and compatibility of Chrome but a low level ad and tracker block which makes it way better at not being detected and can't be killed by Google.
Many years ago I thought that Mozilla was cool. This is so sad.
When they were against freedom of speech it all ended
DEI kills everything
True, but this seems like an easy umbrella term for Mozilla to launder money. They don't believe in anything, but money. (This goes for all companies)
@@akosv96One in the same thing. Leftism in general is corruption.
you misspelled DIE.
They called it DIE for years, until people took notice of the acronym.
No coincidence.
it sounds like they're draining what funds they can before the ship sinks.
absolutely
The CEO question
The CEO solution
Work sets you free!
I’ve been using Firefox since 2004.. What a bummer…
Same. Went to Firefox straight from Netscape. What now then?
Same here, been with it from the start, really bummed
I’ve been using Firefox since the firebird days. What a bummer.
overrated browser
best browser is opera gx :D
I've been using Firefox and Thunderbird since they became available after Netscape Navigator went the way of all good things. I've also donated because I used the software. Sayonara!
If they're not for profit, who determines what they ARE for?
@@rarefruit4173but who is that? Without owners, it's weird.
Fun fact: nobody makes their owners more money than "non-profits"
For profits give money to shareholders. Not for profits give money to themselves
@wrongthinker843 but there are no owners
@@xpusostomos That's a laughable statement.
as the age of firefox comes to its non-technical queer motivated climate driven end, it makes room for the birth of a new, non-political technically focused browser project, ladybird.
May many flowers bloom.
"non-political technically focused browser project, ladybird"
For now...
@@kevinmcfarlane2752 if it is open source then it can always be reborn if enough people are interested. Forking is the phoenix of open source
@@kevinmcfarlane2752 Yeah, feels like the world will collectively never learn the necessary lessons about gatekeeping. Everything just keeps going through the same cycle over and over again.
This feels like tunneling - something we had a lot in Czech republic in 90’s after switching to democracy, when many formerly state owned companies were tunelled out of money and assets by profiteers
1. start up 2. cash in 3. sell out 4. bro down
When these major open source projects fall apart we’ll see which meritocratic forks successfully emerge when the dust settles.
linux kernel also will probably be fortked by finns,east europeans and russians+chinese
... biden exec order banning russians and chinese contributing was hillarious af.
its like blowing ur own brains out... a country wich is completely dependant on H1B brain visas.......
american tragicomedy never ceases to amaze me
I was a loyal Firefox user for about 20 years, but thanks to one of your recent videos about Firefox, I've made the switch to Vivaldi. Just want to say thank you.
Lol, you went for Vivaldi too? I switched like two weeks ago because the performance on some javascript-infested websites was dreadful. I'm on quite ancient hardware.
So far it's all Chromium or Firefox based.
What does Vivaldi do that makes you think it's worthwhile?
Afaik, it's very much chromium based, which is worse than anything Firefox based offers unfortunately :/
I was a longtime Firefox user and switched to Vivaldi via Opera about three years ago. If you were attracted to Firefox by its superior customisability, then Vivaldi is probably the best Chromium alternative.
@@magicalnoodles See my reply. Unless you especially hate Chromium on principle then Vivaldi is the most customisable and feature-rich of the Chromium alternatives. So it's a logical choice for Firefox power users. The alternative is to stay within Gecko and hope that the Mozilla team is able to maintain it going forward, or else the "community" will have to step up.
@@kevinmcfarlane2752 The prospective loss of 80% funding of Mozilla is what prompted me to look for a replacement. I like the level of customization with Vivaldi. Plus, it's more than just a web browser, you can check your email, calendar, and you can add feeds. There is a xkcd feed which delivers a funny comic about twice a week.
They know the party will be over soon so they are eating as much as they can.
Not only that. $50k amount also seems to be the standard maximum amount of money which often doesn't get flagged in a bunch of banks for inspection. This is trying to be below-the-radar transfer
😂 good Lord this is exactly a money laundering scheme....
Almost all LGBT orgs are. Nobody talks about it.
@@CommanderRiker0 Applies to grievance industries in general. For example, BLM is most certainly a money laundering scheme, to the extent that the derogatory "Buying Liars Mansions" gained foothold and is well-known. Anything built on "agree with me or you're a bigot" is prime territory for corruption.
If you're still donating money to Mozilla, you're a fool!
anyone donating toi activist organizations of any kind are fools ,
we call it stupid tax in east europe
The Nigerian prince got em.
"It's just a phase, mom" - said Mozilla "reinventing itself" as it laundered the last cents of it's remaining cash inflow.
Man, you're doing a massive service to open source. Thank you so much for being really brave!
I would just like to point out that Firefox still has no Windows/Linux support for HDR. And a lot of streaming services dont even give you a 1080p stream but limit you to SD quality.
I dont even want to mention WebGPU support...
Firefox becomes more and more unusable in comparision to other browsers. I dont really see how Mozilla can get out of the pit they are digging right now.
Yeah and Skype has a banner to urge you to download Chrome.
Everything else is Chrome engine, spyware, tracking & selling your searches & browsing history.
@@guytech7310 yeah literally all software does that...
you're clearly not in the tech industry lol :D
EU hjas GDPR laws, but i bet companies just ignore them until they get caught, then pay some small fine.. and everything goes like usual....
Yep. That looks like money laundering.
The charity industrial complex is a bunch of patronage networks for these grifters
Shameless grifters.
The Canadian govt. has a very similar list.
What's the bet that some of these wire transfers end up in swiss bank accounts?
cayman island
That feels like the last moments of Titanic while the orcestra played a music before it sank...
orchestral circus music ,
they so bad at money laundering, that you don't even have to have investigation to see it
:DDDDDDDD
@Microphunktv-jb3kj
so much so...
sounds like money laundering to me as well.
executives stashing $$ with some fake fronts on the donations?
ceos milking company, while developers gets nothing. just think if a genuine developer who is interested in Mozilla was made ceo and just double his current salary, not millions . that person could actually made the company better
I don't think so. Developers are great at developing. Not many are great at managing a company. Management skills take time to build. Bad management is often guys who are really good at their jobs but not great at managing. Once they're in charge of a team, they know all the ways to slack off, but they don't know how to address it or how to improve the team even though they've thought about it in the past. Reality meets fantasy and suddenly those solutions they though of don't work in practice. Then they get grumpy and bitter or just try to wing it with bad results.
Also, the CEO is on call 24/7. A good CEO is worth way more than double the salary of a developer. They make or break the company regardless of what the plebs want to believe. I mean we're looking at the results of a bad CEO and its horrendous what's happening to this company.
@@randallsanchez3161 The biggest problem with your statement is that the vast majority of managers and corporates are not great at managing companies either, which is exactly where Mozilla is now. Consider Ms. Baker, jacking up her pay while contributing arguably nothing. Your statement is just the same worn-out excuse for "we gotta place the incompetents somewhere, so why not the C-Suite?"
So much better to have someone with at least some actual technical chops and system knowledge in charge; they can also actually fill in if there is turnover.
In this case, all the technically competent have fled, and mostly what's left are McManagers who, although they answer to the CEO, apparently can't actually DO much, other than tick all the exact same boxes you mentioned about bad technical managers, and hire more managers in attempt to fill the competence gap, thus metastasizing their inefficient ranks while turning their organization into an overly complex, cubicled tower of babel.
And here we see the self-evident decline from precisely your paradigm.
And, btw, very, very few CEOs I've seen in 30 years are actually on call 24/7(maybe one). Or even 8/5 for that matter. Get real.
They probably don't use firefox themselves, if they want to destroy it.
They probably use Macs.
@@javaman4584 mac isnt a web browser bro...
It seems like the executives in the foundation are taking as much money out of the organisation as possible, before their money stream dries up.
The only "reinvention" seems to be middle-class people reinventing themselves into millionaires by stripping out as much cash as possible.
Is complete laundry money scheme.
That grammar reminded me of "Farty Towels" (Fawlty Towers joke sign).
Lmao squeezing one last paycheck before the ship collapses
It's a cash out, they intend to milk it till it dies and then declare bankruptcy.
Bill Gates got involved.. and everything went to the rotten WEF agendas to decimate the West for the gReAt ReSeT agenda.
so much corruption..
Clearly all money must be extracted before it runs out
This sounds like politicians doing a presentation for a bank for $500k ...
Damn, I thought things were bad for Mozilla previously. Just shows you it can always get worse.
It seems that the corporate model of running a business ends up exploding every time. They begin fine, with investors helping to launch an idea, but after a while, the CEO and investors seem bent on mining as much of the assets out before it all collapses from bureaucracy, ineptitude and poor quality.
Of course it did. Right after a bunch of layoff, right?
Mozilla is circling the drain ...
It sounds like they're laundering money.
Asking generally: Isn't there any kind of law with regards duty of care? If there isn't, what is to stop a board simply robbing a non-profit blind of it's donations...?
Market mechanisms. If enough people stop donating to Mozilla, it will go bankrupt and it's members will have to learn how to actualy be useful.
@@LubosMudrak No, they just have to find their next mark and do the same thing again.
@@destari5917 how would anyone in their right mind would employ a person who is publicly known to use company funds for obvious money laundering? 😀Am I being naive?
Looking like they are roaching out, give themself a huge bonus before everything crash and don't have anymore liabilities.
If you have a company which has the primary job of coding a web browser together, trying to prove that coding is bad for whatever they claim it's bad for, it makes you wonder what the hell is going on here.
I've absolutely no regrets at ending my financial support and use of Mozilla products back when Brendan Eich was forced out. A cynical person might look at Mozilla and see two things happening until the money runs out:
1. Executives grabbing as much cash as they can.
2. Money the executives can't personally trouser gets funnelled into their activist causes while it lasts.
So let's assume that Mozilla is going down in 2025. What are good alternatives to Firefox and Thunderbird that don't depend on the code base of those Mozilla products continuing to be maintained?
@rarefruit2320 The company is being run like a money laundering operation. They are spending almost nothing on Firefox and Thunderbird. They are in danger of losing 80% of their revenue. I think those are good reasons for concern.
Brave, ungoogled chromium, or strip down spooky chromium features yourself. That or hope Ice Cat or Floorp picks up the slack of Mozilla.
Edit: Forgot to mention brave's News function is a RSS reader that you can customize. Then you have Mutt for email on the terminal. Newsboat is an rss reader for the terminal. Then Kmail from KDE and Geary from Gnome.
The arch wiki has a massive list of programs separated into categories. Even if you aren't on arch you can use it to discover new programs then look them up on debian or whatever package manager you're using.
There are forks of Firefox out there, but all of them depend on Firefox releases so chances are those will die as well.
@@javaman4584 Brave or hardened/de-g00glplexd Chromium. Brave has an RSS News feature but from email you can use Kmail (KDE) or Geary (Gnome).
@@javaman4584 deee "ihatecensor"
goo "ihatecensor"
gled "ihatecensor"
chro "ihatecnesor"
mium "ihatesenhor"
So they are raiding the treasury as is the standard action when an organization/country is about to crash.
they are grabbing everything they can while they can
6 million for nonprofit. They need to be prosecuted for Tax evasion
Here's a maybe-not-so-crazy idea. Given how Mozilla gets most of their money from Google, what are the chances that Mozilla gets told where to funnel money?
I still don't understand how that business model works
Yeah something smells very fishy. I am slowly moving away from Firefox, but still a Thunderbird user. I dont want ideology to drive my tech choices however it seems like Mozilla is really on the wrong path.
There's a better version around called Floorp browser.
I mean it's just normal firefox.
I'm using Firefox since it become a thing. Not willing to go Chrome or Edge. What to use then?
KDE Falkon maybe
Brave or Vivaldi.
but on the beginning there was a "pub" automated by youtube....
as the line goes "Go on, take the money and run..."
With your focusing on exposing the corruption greed and woke BS these companies are doing I can see why you are banned from some of the stuff. Eventually you will get charged with hate speech. This is why I subscribed to your channel.
Thanks Bryan. I call shenanigans.
Could it be that they’re trying to attract investors by scoring ESG points? That sucks. It’s all so performative.
seems simple it's the same type of payments that the state department does into countries they are trying to influence..
Does this have anything to do with why Firefox doen’t work in fedora to watch primevideo anymore?
when i see this behavior from mozilla it really makes me think there's a lot they don't tell us
there's someone out there controlling mozilla like a puppet and assuring them the money will keep coming
insert whatever dei conspiracy you want, there's something like that going on
Sounds like embezzlement, especially when it's round numbers.
Rewarding incompetence, that's the modern western way.
Are there any good browsers left? I am NOT going to use Chrome or Edge.
"Let them byte cake"
So, you have chosen death.
About Sub-Saharan Africa, doesn't the Gates Foundation also have their hands on the AI deployment and the political spheres? I wonder if Mozilla is investing in the same initiatives.
I enjoy these videos, but I can’t stand hearing “modzilla” over and over again.
What is a good google free browser now?
that's the first time I noticed you making the face before beginning
Hmmm... It walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it's very fair to say it's embezzlement
I always felt bad for not donating to Mozilla. I would have just been funding their political bs?
the pay doubled 2023
the revenue loss info came 2024
-> your title is misleading
Damn thank you time to find a new browser.
I'm using Waterfox for now, but eventually it's core codebase will go away. Could we set up a "consortium" of Mozilla-derivatives (Waterfox, Librewolf, Thunderbird, Betterbird, and even further offshoots like PaleMoon and Epyrus)? Can we set it up so it won't eventually devolve into a self-serving behemoth?
@BryanLunduke Can you do a FOIA request to the Mozilla foundation to find out what businesses or organizations that money is going to in Africa? It would be a great piece of investigative reporting perhaps.
Bryan you just don't understand tech exec pay /s
Come on, it's easy, it's an inverse ratio. For the less work and usefulness an executive provides, their pay goes up proportionally.
i am watching this on the Zen Browser on my GNU/Linux laptop
"Bourgeoisie of the world, Unite!" - t. Mozzila
Is there a backstory to why Mozilla is being pronounced as Mot-zilla?
@@Beonid how do you pronounce pizza?
@@xpusostomos Typically with a similar 'tz' sound to what's being used in the video.
Is it some kind of running gag relating Mozilla to pizza?
@@Beonid as far as I know, people saw that letter combination and had a natural reaction. How do you pronounce Mozart and Mozzarella?
@@xpusostomosThe correct pronunciation of Mozilla is 'Mow-zi-luh', according to both videos published by Mozilla itself, and the pronunciation guide provided by Google.
I don't think I've ever heard Mozilla pronounced with a 'tz' sound other than by Lunduke, but the fact that there's at least one other person out there who's mispronouncing it in a similar was suggests it was just an mistake, rather than something more interesting.
Thanks for humouring me, much appreciated! ❤
@@Beonid fair enough... I guess people make up their own pronunciation rather than go looking for official guidance. So we have Lai-nucks, Li-nucks, Li-nooks, Lai-nooks, etc. Linus himself doesn't care. We have Moscow, Moskva, Ki-ev, Keev, etc it's normal
What happened to Mozilla? Why are they acting like Google or Activision? Mozilla is starting to be a fallen hero...
Mozilla? You mean the global crew of activists?
Isnt Mozilla supposed to be non-profit? So why is the exec being paid as if they made profits? Why is there no funding towards making the core products of Mozilla like Firefox better than before, and to an extent that part of the internet that Firefox still have some influence?? That is a guaranteed winning move because people actually use Firefox, it only benefits a lot more when people use a better Firefox. Where is Servo?
Not surprised.
Think its time to put Mozilla to rest
yep, time to switch to brave
Brave is Chromium based. We need a Firefox-based fork that is actually good and maintained by non-psychos (this rules out Pale Moon).
I guess they want to suck it dry before losing Google money.
Mozilla has been on this bs for the better part of a decade now. I'm glad I quit using it years ago.
Mozilla literally destroyed itself. Literally. And I was a user from even when it was Phoenix. Terribly run. Hates its users. You couldnt destroy a brand harder if you even tried.
WHAT A SURPRISE
Switched to Brave earlier this year
Firefox is better.
This is just thinly veiled money laundering.
Looting the treasury.
Mutzilla? Motezilla? Why are you saying it weird? lol
mudzilla, its what it became, dirt
@@attribute-4677 how do you pronounce it?
Im not the only one hearing Motzilla, right?
What happens with Firefox? Too engaged in Sub-Saharan Africa.
It would be good if thunderbird could be freed from Mozziwoke.