Mozilla’s Vision for the Evolution of the Web
Firefox market share: 3%<p>How far the mighty has fallen. Firefox was once the best browser.<p>We could go into Mozilla&#x27;s political activism that led up to this utter collapse. That&#x27;s unnecessary. Mozilla&#x27;s political activism was clearly toxic to their organization and they didn&#x27;t have the vision of the damage they were doing to themselves.<p>So what value does this vision for the web have? Mozilla clearly needs to fix their own house before telling the entire world what we should do.<p>&gt;The experience of using the Web must not subject individuals to harm.<p>I read through this vision and it&#x27;s all things that are already true today. It&#x27;s difficult to find things they truly wish to change or improve upon.<p>My take is that this is really what this entire vision is about the &quot;harm&quot; they perceive. This is what they want to change. They don&#x27;t want to harm people on the internet. Which in a high level virtually everyone agrees. Everyone already agrees Scams, Fraud, phishing, malware, etc should not be allowed on the internet. No vision needs to be written on this. Mozilla wants to go further than this.<p>&gt;This can lead to situations in which users have very negative experiences (including misinformation, .... in the past platforms have actively cooperated in abusive behavior, for instance via providing extremely fine-grained targeting for advertisements designed to manipulate users&#x27; political behavior.<p>So they are worried about misinformation and manipulating user&#x27;s political behaviour?<p>Mozilla and firefox is more than welcome to keep going down this road. I won&#x27;t try to stop them. That 3% can go lower and lower.<p>&gt;Every company is influenced by its own agenda, business needs, and politics. Left unchecked, those pressures can easily result in the inclusion of ill-conceived features that everyone comes to regret.<p>The irony is that Mozilla clearly proved in this document they haven&#x27;t fixed anything internally. They clearly have not given up their political activism.<p>&gt;The Web’s multi-stakeholder development process is far from perfect, but nonetheless serves as a powerful bulwark against a corporate agenda-du-jour pushing bad ideas into the Web.<p>&quot;corporate agenda pushing bad ideas&quot;<p>That&#x27;s what this is really about isn&#x27;t it. Bad ideas. Misinformation. Mozilla wants to do &quot;more than deplatform&quot; their political opponents. Who gets to decide what is misinformation? Mozilla? Some single government who gets to unilaterally censor the internet for all other countries?<p>No. This is just Mozilla still derailed and crashing.<p>Mozilla might be irreparably damaged by their political activism.