Agreed. They have so many options for privacy-respecting value adds, but they often fall short. For example, their VPN:

• was a rebranded Mullvad (fine) with fewer features (lame)
• no integration with Firefox (missed opportunity)
• eventually integrated it with Container Tabs, but it's still not advertised on their landing page

They picked a good vendor, but they missed so many opportunities to really make it a standout feature.

And there's more they could do like that:

• private, local only ads with revenue share with sites
• create a Mozilla payment network using GNU Taler or similar; you'd pay Mozilla to get credits (potentially with crypto if you don't trust Mozilla with payment info), and sites would opt in to accept those credits, and the user remains anonymous
• integrate with popular password management service like Bitwarden - have it work seamlessly with their other offerings

There's plenty more ideas like that as well. However, I don't trust Mozilla to actually follow through with any of them since they've dropped the ball every other time.

You couldn't have said it better. If money and revenue is an issue, then why keep chasing the next shiny thing.

Just last month, they had a press release announcing they'll incorporate AI into their product suite. In my opinion, the release was just a buzzword laden nonsense. I just don't see the why other than to keep themselves relevant.

I'm not going to downvote your comment, because I strongly believe that we're all entitled to our own opinion.

Now, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, xenophobia is defined as "fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign". Nowhere does the OP display fear or hatred of any type of group, race, religion, nationality or anything else. The thread is about a CEO that is known for having a horrible track record with the privacy of the data his companies collect.

Mentioning a nationality alone is not xenophobia.

Additionally, whether you are a moderator or just a regular user, it does not justify talking to anyone in the way you do.

It is highly likely that the OP has not complied or replied precisely because of the way you chose to word your comment. If it was me, I would have probably removed the nationality from the post, and would not have replied to you, but we're all different.

A moderator moderates. To moderate is to lessen the intensity or extremeness of.

While I respect the tasks moderators do, because they take the time to maintain toxicity away as much as humanly possible, which is not an easy task, being a moderator does not give anyone the right to treat others with disrespect, regardless of the situation.

Now, I have no idea of the extent of a moderator's power in Lemmy instances, but if you kick me out, ban me, or whatever, know that I dont really mind. My reason for being here is wanting to interact with others on productive and respectful conversations, but by no means would that affect me in any significant way. I'm not challenging you, but this is one of the reasons I removed Reddit from my life. Too many moderators with low to no tolerance towards anything they thought was against their rules and acting like dictators.