Right, so, let’s educate you, shall we? First off, do you mean (a) right libertarian or (b) left libertarian? (As these are entirely different things.) If you mean to imply that I’m right libertarian, you can fuck right off. If you mean left libertarian, guilty as charged…https://twitter.com/FreakkaerF/status/979200526624673792 …
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What if Greenpeace got half a billion dollars from Exxon Mobil every year and would go bankrupt if it couldn’t get paid by the fossil fuel industry. Would you be as naïvely trusting of it too? And the issue of institutional corruption goes far beyond Mozilla…https://twitter.com/aral/status/979237747796869120 …
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Institutional corruption is the reason we cannot regulate toxic corporations effectively. The same influence of corporate finance that taints Mozilla also taints public policymaking via lobbying and revolving doors.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979238418122190848 …
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In the Brussels bubble, for example, it’s hard – in the words of Orwell – to differentiate the pigs from the humans sometimes.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979239312834334721 …
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Given that institutional corruption is an existential risk to democracy, to have a
@Piratenpartei MEP’s assistant label criticism of it as “libertarianism” is either the product of extreme naïveté or, quite frankly, both highly baffling and hugely worrying. Class dismissed.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979240643036884992 …Show this thread
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Often wondered how that all worked. Why google search was piped into Firefox? What’s Mozilla’s way out? Use DuckDuckGo and figure out some way to be solvent some other way.
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Google search (and yahoo search and otheres) were built into Mozilla many years before there was any revenue associated with it. The "why" was because users of the 2000s searched as much at they surfed and we wanted to support that in our product.
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Was there ever a Mozilla search engine in development by the way?
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Nope. Mozilla hasn't built a search engine. We did acquire Pocket, which is a user-powered recommendation engine (sort of) and you can see that integration in Firefox's start page with recommended Pocket stories.
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Yeah I’ve been noticing those but had yet to click on any yet. Interesting. I’ll have to dive in a bit. Quality discovery and curation is woefully nonexistent online in general. Is that a revenue source then? What’s the model? Free now ads in the future?
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I don't think there will be ads in Pocket. But right now publishers of Pocket recommended stories (exposed to hundreds of millions of Firefox users) are getting lots of Firefox traffic for free. Maybe they'd pay for some of that traffic. That's how search revenue started.
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Man if Mozilla would just go
#platformcoop. With the reach and legacy it would change the face of the internet overnight. You want to be around in 100 years and still have founding values intact that is the way to do it.
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