Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
  • zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4432·
    5 个月前

    Using technology from a known crypto scamming developer is not good.

    • XLE@piefed.socialBanned from communityEnglish
      519·
      5 个月前

      Using entirely unrelated ad blocking technology is bad for what reason?

      You can feel free to moralize, but be consistent: Mozilla bought an NFT company to integrate their code into Firefox, and that’s not the only skeleton in their closet.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        202·
        5 个月前

        Oh they have a whole cemetery of a city in the basement.

        Still doesnt excuse it IMO.

        • XLE@piefed.socialBanned from communityEnglish
          104·
          5 个月前

          Does it need an excuse? It’s a good change. If you have a reason to dislike it, please provide one.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        5 个月前

        we were shocked and disappointed by the amount of fraud in crypto and NFT

        That sounds so funny, somehow

      • arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        5 个月前

        I mean what’s wrong with buying a company to access it proprietary code. NFTs were a dumb grift, but if the specific software product they offered was sound what’s the issue?

        • XLE@piefed.socialBanned from communityEnglish
          12·
          5 个月前

          If the code was good, nothing would be wrong with it. It would be even better if the code was free. And that’s my point.

          (In Mozilla’s case, it’s actually much worse because they bought private customer data along with the technology and then canned the technology while keeping the data, but that’s a different story.)

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      5 个月前

      Why?

      I use Linux. This means everyday I use software developed by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, the US military and the NSA.

      It doesn’t really matter who developed or contributed so much as who benefits.