They like to play the “user and privacy friendly” company. Meanwhile they are hemoraging users, and laying off staff needed to actually build a great browser.
Mozilla ceo pay increase + layoffs in 2020:
In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008. On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated “I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That’s too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to.”
In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic.
Brave just released their own privacy-preserving AI assistant named Leo. (lemmy.world)
You can test it in Brave Nightly 1.59.
Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
This little machine continues to surprise me (i.imgur.com)
It honestly makes me wonder why i keep using windows on my main desktop if proton allows playing most anything i play