moonbat wrote: ↑2022-02-12, 21:09
I've always maintained that the user should be in control of their experience on the net. Pale Moon is all that's left for those who want that. If you want privacy -
you have to secure your browsing experience and block ad/tracker scripts, not expect the advertisers to pinky swear that they won't snoop on you.
Do Not Track was such a hit after all.
They track everything and yet they are still not satisfied, they have to dictate how I see things, many years ago on Google search there use to be a setting to turn off autocomplete/suggest whatever it is called. I can spell thank you very much and i know what I want to type. Years later the option disappeared so I was left with a parameter
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0, in about 2015 no longer working, started a thread in Google product forums and one of staff replied that "it's built in" and I felt so enraged. Looking how it could be hidden and that's when I first started to use Adblock (normally used hosts to block dodgy advert sites) and with the help of forums there I reported back with the suggest line elements that I hid and had a right go at them that I proved them wrong and a whole load of people with interest started commenting in the thread about something I couldn't make any sense out of to do pigs and the bacon.
I saw this a couple of days ago and found it a bit sad for what Firefox once was:
http://firefox.sucks/Firefox
Former Employee - Team Member says
"I worked at Mozilla full-time for more than 3 years Cons: - Mozilla is struggling to create a sustainable financial model that doesn't require cash from Google( the company they claim are destroying user privacy) -Bully behavior is common here and people who are favorites get away with it. This is a place for people who are extremely extroverted people who loves to step on other people's shoes & can play politics. If you don't fall under that category you might feel overwhelmed. Employees are not treated well, they fall victim of too much politics and are scared to speak up and express themselves. -Mozilla has a racially charged environment, being a person of minority race I have faced discrimination on many levels. Their focus is not on being fair to people of color, their focus is on looking good to the outside world. -Leaders are not trusting of their team and they decide to micro-manage which slows down execution. Employees feel over-worked and stressed due to lack of direction & politics, which results in making mistakes. Developing employees is not on the agenda for HR and leaders, they are too busy playing politics."... and the arrogance
Former Employee - Staff Software Engineer says
"I worked at Mozilla full-time for more than 8 years Cons: Mozilla has become a more business-oriented hierarchical model in its structure over the past five years and has steadily declined as a flat organization that acknowledges, encourages, or engages the open-source community that once made it great. Ideas now come from the top and not from within. It has continued to struggle to create a sustainable financial model that doesn't require regular and generous financial infusions of cash from Google and other search providers. The very companies that Mozilla deems as the organizations that are destroying privacy on the web. Roughly a year ago (2019), senior leadership pushed through raises for all employee bands (IC and management).Senior management, in particular, received significant pay increases. The now CEO received millions of dollars in inducements for leading a steady ship that hit it's target goals. At the end of the year the senior leadership team decided to cut costs [unrelated to COVID-19] and without ceremony embarked on a layoff of it's higher-paid, and more senior staff while largely leaving the director and above level untouched. This is the same group that received pay increases and bonuses for staying on target. Mozilla is a shadow of its once great self and the psychological safety that allowed for groundbreaking ideas to germinate and go-to-market are long over. Mozilla ungenerously executed a layoff into one of the most difficult economic events in the history of the current generation while it's leadership team financially benefited. Pair this against companies within the tech space which have fought to prevent layoffs and Mozilla does not measure up to the challenge."
So according above it looks like they did have good people working there but got laid off whilst the CEO and management got greedy .
Not looking good for Mozilla.
