| > Firefox has evolved from a faithful and efficient render of web pages on PCs to a cross-platform agent that acts on behalf of the individual, protecting them from bad actors and surveillance capitalists as they navigate the web. I mean, ok. It's a browser that has sensible privacy defaults. > Mozilla has introduced new products, such as Firefox Relay and Mozilla VPN, to keep people’s identity protected and activity private as they use the internet. The free version is provided by Cloudflare, and the paid version is provided by Mullvad. I assume the clients are custom, though. But these have always felt like rebrandings or partnerships to me. > Mozilla is contributing to healthy public discourse, with Pocket enabling discovery of amazing content and the mozilla.social Mastodon instance supporting decentralized, community-driven social media. I'm sure there are faithful lovers of Pocket out there somewhere. But for me, it's the first thing I remove after I install Firefox. The way Mozilla talks about Pocket, there must be some PM at Mozilla who simply cannot let get of this pet project of theirs. You'd think it was a huge differentiator/killer app, the way they talk about it, but it's really just a widget that rudely reappears after major version updates, even if you've dismissed it before. Never used the mastadon instance, but I'll bet it's very nice. > As AI emerges as a core building block for the future of computing, we’ll turn our attention in that direction and ask: How can we make products and technologies like machine learning work in the public interest? We’ve already started this work via Mozilla.ai, a new Mozilla organization focusing on a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. And via the Responsible AI Challenge, where we’re convening (and funding) bright people and ambitious projects building trustworthy AI. YESS! More of this. This is your chance. There's a new Internet Explorer on the horizon, an new Netscape - a new paradigm shift. Don't let that new paradigm be closed and run for profit! Give the power to the users, give us open choices! Don't just treat this as a lazy branding moment. Provide something truly open and beneficial to users, and they will come to you. You did it once already in 1998, do it again! |
> I'm sure there are faithful lovers of Pocket out there somewhere.
I use Pocket as a glorified bookmark manager. I'm not even really sure what discovery options it has except for the email they send me, which I filter out of my inbox before I ever see it.
Edit: Actually, not even that. I use it as a "Read Later" service.