Michael

They still get a surprising amount of telemetry out of LTSC, especially 11 LTSC.

If you read the chain, I wasn’t comparing. It’s possible in a couple years that engines like Ladybird or Servo will take the place of Gecko, at least in part.

Mozilla has no public plan in place to deal with a loss of Google’s funding.

Source? I read that he took issue with gender neutral pronouns, but I’m not a simp for him or somebody to argue for lesser evils.

I was satisfied with how Andreas explained the funding situation of the Ladybird browser. They are relying on sponsorships, in addition to individual user donations, and also engaging in fundraising (but not in the venture capital sense).

As Andreas (loosely) put it; they are melting the hearts of people that echo some of the same views as yourself. They are being careful with how they scale and utilize funding, and they aim to make a codebase where everybody working on it is generally proficient in the entire codebase.

Mozilla’s funding isn’t sustainable and (in my opinion) their leadership are not reliable actors anymore - merely masquerading as activists. They do not utilize their money effectively. Relying on the money of an ad-tech/search/browser/etc. monopoly that is openly engaging in mass surveillance, and more recently, selling their AI for war isn’t ethical or compatible with Mozilla’s mission.

Ladybird is quickly shaping up.

See Brodie’s interview of Andreas Kling, the lead developer of the Ladybird Browser: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IXdBndEipps

There are several clips of the interview on his channel if you don’t have time to watch a 2 hour interview.

As for something taking place of the Mozilla Foundation itself, their activism in influencing web standards isn’t really enough anymore anyways. They are silent about fingerprinting, which their main source of funding engages in openly.