The Mozilla Foundation just released a new tool. It is not a tool that improves user privacy, or makes browsing faster. Nor is it something that allows the browser to consume less memory or that people with disabilities can access prohibited content.
But, it is politically correct. And, that seems to be the only thing that matters to the tech industry today.
What better than him newsletter that the Foundation sends to its subscribers explain the purpose of the new tool
Facebook has a big problem with hate speech and misinformation on its platform. Despite groups calling on him to take action, including Mozilla, he has yet to make changes.
But Facebook has an Achilles heel: 99% of its $ 70 billion in revenue comes from advertisers.
We're calling on Mozilla's peers - tech companies and companies heavily reliant on the Internet for their core business - who are among the top Facebook advertisers to get their ads off Facebook including Amazon, Uber, Samsung, Disney, and Apple.
We need your help to encourage them to join the growing movement against hate speech and misinformation online. Can you tweet telling companies to join #StopHateForProfit?
In summary, Mozilla's new tool consists of a button that, when you click on it, selects a company at random, and automatically writes a tweet on your behalf. and asking you to stop advertising on Facebook
Don't have Twitter? Mozilla helps you post a message on your wall Facebook
By the way, in Twitter are also working on something that is going to change the tech industry. They have a programmer removing the words master and slave of your code. Allowing tweets to be edited is not a priority.
Mozilla keeps getting it wrong
A clarification. I'm disabled. I can tell stories of discrimination that would make the hair stand on end for many millennials who use the word in social networks before the slightest inconvenience in their relationship with other people. I'm not starting a competition to see who suffers the most. I am simply saying this to make it clear that I am not raising the discussion from the comfort of a yogurt pot.
I have nothing negative to say about a campaign against hate speech. Well, I am a little concerned that anyone who doesn't like content will follow suit and cowering advertisers will end up allowing censorship to be imposed.
MY problem is that The Mozilla Foundation uses the resources it should be to create and promote a better browser in something other than its function.
Not that they are doing very well preciselyand. Google Chrome has 69,42% of the desktop market compared to 8,42 for Firefox. This puts Mozilla's browser in third place after Safari which has 8,74% working on a single platform.
If we see mobiles things are even worse. Firefox ranks sixth with 0,47%. Ahead of the Mozilla browser are:
- Chrome 63,42%
- Safari 22,98 &%
- Samsung Internet 6,55%
- UC Browser 3,4%
- Opera 1,6%
On tablets things are a little better. Until one realizes that it is because it is a more divided sector between Apple and Google.
Safari 47,94%
Chrome 37.63%
Android 12.03%
Firefox 0.79%
Trade 0.52%
UC Browser 0.52%
You can find the source of the statistics here
We all repeat that Chromium it is an open source engine. But, the only one of the browsers that use it, outside of Chrome, with some relevance in the ranking is Opera.
Google Chrome has a lot of problems. Problems that even made it to the New York Times. How we reproduced it at the time Linux Adictos, your technology columnist discovered that while Firefox had blocked all tracking cookies, Google browser installed 11189. He also claimed that Chrome took logging into Gmail as permission to log into his Google account. allowing you to collect even more personal informationl.
Ultimately, if Mozilla staff wants to help improve the operations of other companies, let them do so in their spare time and without using the mailing list we subscribe to to find out about their products. Meanwhile, If they want to help a better world, they should do something to curb the monopoly of the food market. browsers.
The truth is totally unnecessary what it does and they only do it for fashion, if others jump off the bridge, why can't Mozilla do it? So they are thinking.
All right ...
They are like resting on their laurels.
And using people to crush companies as if they were ordes of orcs under siege, is something that is unfortunately becoming fashionable.
3 years ago I left firefox as the default browser and moved to Chrome, until today every time I browse in firefox it is a bummer, it is slow and there are things that do not display correctly. Lately I'm keeping an eye on Brave and the truth is about to convince me.
In total agreement, it is better to dedicate yourself to optimizing and correcting your own bugs, and thus promoting better services that allow you to upload your preferences ... the contingency is very relevant but in other global economic areas and that each user is free to choose to participate or abstain .
In complete agreement with the author.
It is q to advertise by showing indignant / interested, it is easy. Doing things right to solve problems, no longer.
Mozilla wrong? we started. Do you know something of the enormous work that is being done to recode everything to Rust and win the battle on the side of the security and stability of the browser, surely you know, someone as knowledgeable as you for sure. But if they do something that is out of your way, as usual because of the tone of some of your articles, they are wrong. If we don't use your favorite desktop, we are all wrong. Lately your articles show that you are becoming a very uncompromising person, make yourself look at it. Do you want to use Chrome? congratulations to you, but don't pick up shit that bores already. For me Chrome is the number 1 Trojan on many computers and a back door like a cathedral, you want to use it, great use it. By the way, how much have you contributed financially to the Mozilla foundation or how much code have you contributed in the last year? Nothing of mine. Ale you can start now.
by your words your position leads you by the same zenda that you criticize the author of the article
Are they seriously making an article to demean the actions of mozilla and some asshole take the opportunity to throw their hatred of the browser? Can anyone seriously using google chrome or any derivative of chromium afford to criticize firefox? If they are doing badly it is for two things, one because their computer is a shitty shit with 200mb of ram, or two because they have everything full of Trojans arrived by chrome.
It seems great to me that firefox incorporates these tools, they prove to be much more in sync with the community.
Very well said. I think that although there are many things Mozilla can do, but this is a good step and criticizing it with so little dialectic is unprofessional.
your words also exude hatred
by your words your position leads you by the same zenda that you criticize the author of the article
I already said it in previous articles. They have lost a visitor and they have gained a detractor. I am tired of the false equidistant speech that only covers up fascism. Have a happy forgetfulness.
The article is very good, Firefox Facebook are not press, they are browser and communication platform, they have to focus on development and technical improvements, it does not serve me or Mer. That they put the git politically correct, it helps me that they do better every day Technically speaking, they want to make political speech, walk the street, support a movement, but don't import your ideologies to the technology that we all use, because we have little censorship here. And pro-right and pro-left browsers, don't let politics get into our universe. It's only going to get worse, those who complain about Facebook are going to give their data to the governments of the day, that's where freedom of expression ends
You can accuse me of a lot of things and most of them are probably true. But, if the 229 articles I wrote for Linux Adictos, is my absolute horror at the oligopoly that the technology industry is becoming. And one of the things that horrifies me the most is the quasi-monopoly of Chromium/Chrome in browsers.
I am not against Firefox, quite the contrary. What I want is for them to stop playing social activism and use that energy to make it good enough so that no one can stop using it.
Sadly, political correctness has become part of marketing ...
In principle, do you think that button has taken a lot of resources from the organization? Really? Clearly not, therefore what bothers you, yes, is the campaign. Isn't it important to you that an organization lays the foundations of what it thinks? Although I'm sorry, the Mozilla Manifesto has been around since its inception, and as a non-profit organization, it fights for the interests that it believes it should fight.
But also, you mix fruits with vegetables, by using usage statistics with the good or bad of a browser, when you know that it is not the only reason. It's even stranger coming from a place called linux adictos, in which I imagine you use linux, therefore you consider it better, but nevertheless we are still waiting for "the year of linux on the desktop" (I also use gnu/linux, just in case).
Outside of that, do you want to know what Mozilla does to improve your browser? You can follow planet.mozilla.org, you can enter their open matrix room and collaborate or just find out. You also have https://hacks.mozilla.org/ to keep track of the news of the improvements and the work you do.
So a bad clickbait note of yours. And if the political campaign bothers you, don't try to hide it.
I use mozilla since its inception and will continue to use it until the project dies,
I sincerely believe that you are the one who is wrong.
Edge is using chromium as a base;
the problem with mozilla is that most distributions bring it
as the default browser and that for those who want more freedom
it is a stone in the shoe.
I totally agree with the author, if Firefox wants to survive better than to avoid entering the political plane and not ride the wave of misnamed "political correctness" that is nothing more than pure censorship in pursuit of turning humanity a flock of sheep. The same goes for Linux.
It is worth clarifying that anyway, I only use one browser: Firefox, and I will continue to do so despite these stupidities.
Greetings.