The reason people are talking about this in such a negative light is because it did not occur in a vaccum. Nothing but mildly and moderately bad news over a swath of time adds up quickly. If there was no other bad news it could be written off, but this bad news bears the wight of all the other bad news as well.

rn not much. In the future there'll be properly portable accounts using cryptographic keys and once federation kicks in lighter servers making it probably more distributed.

Gemini? The protocol equivalent to the cyber Amish?

Oh, Google stuff. Meh

Doubling down on our core products, like Firefox

Expected them to double down on Google tracking, AI, and pocket while laying off Firefox engineers. Still do, but maybe slightly slower now.

Sorry, but it is tech-y. Not out of reach by anybody who is interested in learning, but ask the average person to self sign their drivers (required for any Nvidea card if you want to game and don't turn on legacy bios). Or maybe you want the latest version of Spotify on Mint and therefore need to add flathub using the terminal. With help or research, sure, not hard concepts to grasp. Without help though, it'd probably be a dealbrealer.

And once you'ce done both of those I'd consider you 'tech-y'

The big turning point came in 2018 when I signed a legally binding commitment to ensure that Ecosia could never be sold and that 100% of our profits would always go to the planet. Today, your searches enable us to work with partners to plant and protect 1,250 species of trees across 95,000 locations globally.

Keywords plant and protect. Basically a papermill can plant trees to harvest 20 years later and in the meantime sell carbon offsets for 19 years then harvest and replant.

Can't say for sure they're doing it, but from what I hear just about every tree is eligible for a "carbon offset" and some companies abuse it by saying "this is our tree" as long as it's not cut down within x months and use it as a carbon offset or a "protected tree."

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Nuff said

Didn't Mozilla just do a big roadmap talking about what they plan to do in the future and it was basically all AI and Activism with no mention of Firefox?

I hope to see Firefox grow, but who knows. Especially if antitrust actions or a continued drop in Firefox usage cuts off the Google money and makes Mozilla go poof.

But of course at least Gecko is Foss so it can't disappear entirely if the community doesn't let it.

Maybe a tiny bit unstable and proprietary, but I don't think they have had any controversies or shady action.

I use Joplin for notes, though if you want daily notes specifically "Diary" might also be a good choice.

nor is the Play Store promoted over their native app stores on those devices

Google actually forces it's installation if you want to use the android trademark. It'd probably be pretty hard to market "MotorolaOS"

They force anybody using the android trademark to include Google Play/Services, not a lawyer but I think that's "tying" when they force you to use one thing with something else.

And juries are unpredictable.