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      • chaogomu ( chaogomu@kbin.social ) 
        13·
        3 years ago

        Seems to be a Qanon guy. Or he was for a time. I’ve not paid attention to him in years.

        He also always came off as a grifter in search of a con, so the Qanon shit might have been part of that, but who can ever tell with those people.

          • chaogomu ( chaogomu@kbin.social ) 
            9·
            3 years ago

            You should also take the post with a grain of salt, In addition to his shitty politics, Lunduke doesn’t have the best reputation for truthfulness in his tech reporting.

            He’s fudged numbers before, and often makes clickbait titles that just are not supported by his blog posts or videos.

            The shitty politics were not the only reason I started ignoring his dumb ass.

            • 0xtero ( 0xtero@beehaw.org ) 
              2·
              3 years ago

              Yeah, noted.
              I did go and read the report myself. The blog combines lot of stuff and makes its own narrative, but it’s not wildly inaccurate as far as I can see and I can’t say it changed my overall level of disappointment.

              The strategy letters from the Chair and the President are full of AI mumbo-jumbo and they’ve expanded the board from six to ten people, taking on four new members who are supposed to be able to guide them towards this new, fantastic AI-filled future. Quite large percentage of the board is now meant to be there for “building better future with AI”.

              Their income is still largely (81%) tied to one customer and the rest are scraps from VPN and Pocket subscriptions. Basically the whole corp sits well and truly in Google’s pocket.

              The Foundation President gets $300k year, the Corp CEO gets $600k year, but somehow also qualified for $6.3M bonus totaling $6.9M. That’s a nice raise from $5.4M last year. Sure, the CEO compensation packages are globally totally fucked up and I guess it’s easy to point to “competitive roles elsewhere” and motivate the need for year on year extra millions, but they have been firing people due to shrinking revenues, so not sure what her performance bonuses are tied to.

              As to them abandoning Firefox. That’s perhaps a claim taken too far. Gotta do some creative between the lines reading. They say they’re building this fantastic, bright AI future on the base of their core products (so Firefox and Thunderbird). I think they’ll stick around and I think it makes sense for Google to keep it going in some marginal market-share capacity order to avoid anti-trust watchdogs.

    • Proteish ( Decade4116@awful.systems ) Català
      9·
      3 years ago

      Lunduke is such a contrarian. He cannot help himself from trying to argue that he understands better than common opinion, whether or not his position makes sense.

      This is the man who disabled HTTPS on his site because he felt that the fact certificates can expire and domains can change hands made it not secure enough… and that using plain HTTP was somehow a more pragmatic security approach.

  • atro_city ( atro_city@fedia.io ) 
    27·
    3 years ago

    We, the community, really need to make a separate browser project. It’s clear that Mozilla doesn’t care about competing with chrome/chromium. They just want to be in the market to get that sweet google money so that google can’t be sued for being a monopoly by funding a “competitor”.

  • neuracnu ( neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
    14·
    3 years ago

    What methods are being used to measure browser market share? Are those methods inclusive of Firefox users utilizing privacy-forward tools and ad blockers? If not, then Firefox market share may not necessarily be dwindling.

    Then again, if Mozilla’s revenue stream is aligned with the world of advertising, Firefox users who strive to make themselves invisible to advertisers are being written-off outright by Mozilla. The population of browser market share is only counting those who advertisers can influence - nobody else matters.