OMG! Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-200502497.html Did Google perhaps pressure them to do this?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social literally only on a Firefox fork because it's not Chromium

UNTIL THE BITTER END

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I think it's more likely that Mozilla is trying to become another Google.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Mozilla has been in increasingly shaky financial shape, and its moves to diversify (privacy subscriptions, white label VPN, buying and running the Pocket service, etc) haven’t moved the needle.

No need to speculate on Google doing a single thing. Mozilla’s management is simply trying to reduce costs and stop the red ink.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Speculation I’ve seen points more to Mozilla potentially worrying that after this antitrust case that’s ongoing, Google may not be able to pay other companies (Mozilla, Apple, etc.) to be the default search engine. So potentially more seeing that the money might dry up

@nixCraft@mastodon.social It's not unexpected, especially considering other tech layoffs.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I don't think Google told them to do that, probably they wanted to save money while looking for a way to make money