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by greenavocado 340 days ago
The Mozilla "organizations" are a two-headed grift piggy-backed on a non-profit shell so the IRS keeps smiling.

Firefox hasn't made a technical decision without first forwarding the minutes to Mountain View and Redmond since roughly 2017.

Every nine-figure Google wire lands promptly converts into $450 k-per-head salary vapor and off-site "all-hands," while the same week another 250 actual engineers get an email that begins: "You're talented and valued BUT-."

Servo? Jettisoned.

MDN? Gutted.

Security teams? Re-org'd into a Slack channel no one reads.

And the Foundation helpfully reminds donors:

"Your gifts don't pay for Firefox engineering."

No kidding. They pay for glossy pamphlets proclaiming the open-web gospel, first-class flights to "advocacy summits," and Mitchell Baker's $2.5 million thank-you note. Firefox isn't a browser; it's a loss-leader Google keeps in the closet for the next antitrust subpoena.