And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

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    How can the smartest people be so dumb?

    Please, please, PLEASE… if you care about a healthy open internet, donate to Mozilla, Thunderbird, and/or the EFF, at the minimum, if you’re able to.

    I liked to subscribe to Youtube Premium to support my favourite channels but this kinda stuff turns me off.

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      Easy to confuse stupidity with malice. They’re chasing one thing and one thing only: the almighty dollar. Look at it through that lens and their actions make sense. For the rest of us though, that’s just stupid.

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        Not just the almighty dollar.

        Some people just pursue a perceived challenge with zero care for the terrible consequences of it.

        either way, they need to be stopped

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        if they were chasing the dollar, they would be clever about it. This just looks like they are penny wise and pound foolish.

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      Mozilla, Thunderbird, and/or the EFF,

      Do you know that donation to Mozilla don’t (and can’t legally) fund Firefox development, right? (opposite to what happens for Thunderbird, actually).

      But, hey, you can guarantee Mozilla’s CEO a better retirement:

      Thus, your money are better spent donating to Thunderbird or EFF or whatever other foundation that does something actually useful.

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          Excel, Data Source 1 is “Chair pay” and Data Source 2 is “Firefox usage”

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            Do you know that donation to Mozilla don’t (and can’t legally) fund Firefox development, right?

            Two lines on a graph don’t prove that statement. What you’ve proven is that the chair of Mozilla is making more as the market share is going down. Now connect the dots with a source that shows why those numbers matter and you’re golden.

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              I haven’t tried to prove anything. I replied what the data sources were on the chart. It wasn’t a serious comment and it’s not my chart

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        Mozilla income went from $78m to $497m. It’s a much bigger organisation to before. Also if you inflation rate the 500k pay, it’s now worth $710k

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Affiliations

        The web changed, and complexity increased and even staying in there against a larger adversary is hard. Unless you run a company that is competing with Google, I don’t think you’re really qualified to comment.

        Edit: Just realise your description has “Fuck Mozilla!” and you’ve been bashing it since you started on Lemmy. Looks very shilly to me.

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      How can the smartest people be so dumb?

      Who are you talking about exactly? Because I doubt that everyone working at google knows everything thats going on, even while working on it.

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      I wonder how much of the money would go to the creators themselves rather than YouTube though. I’d rather use adblock and give money directly through patreon or something. Fuck Google.

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      It’s not doing something dumb. It’s another power grab. We passed the stage where giving the benefit of the doubt is a reasonable thing to do well over a decade ago.