cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33165280
I got a copy of the text from the email, and added it below, with personal information and link trackers removed.
Hello [receiver’s name],
I’ve long dreamed about working for Mozilla. I learned how to send encrypted e-mail using Mozilla Thunderbird, and I’ve been a Firefox user since almost as long as I can remember. In more recent years, I’ve been an avid follower of Mozilla’s advocacy work, and was lucky enough to partner with Mozilla on investigative journalism in my last job.
In many ways, Mozilla was the dream – and now, as the leader of the Foundation, my job is to make my dreams for Mozilla come true. What that means, though, is making your dreams come true – for a trustworthy and open future of technology; for tech that is a tool for liberation, not limitation; and for tech that values people over profit.
So I’m reaching out to technologists, activists, researchers, engineers, policy experts, and, most importantly, to you – the people who make up the Mozilla community – to ask a simple question.
[receiver’s name]. What is your dream for Mozilla? I invite you to take a moment to share your thoughts by completing this brief survey.
Let’s start with this question:
Question 1: What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?
- Protecting my privacy online
- Avoiding scams
- Choosing products, apps, technology, and services that I can trust
- Keeping children safe online
- Responsible use of AI
- Keeping the internet is open and free
- Knowing how to spot misinformation
- Other (please specify)
With your help, together we can imagine and create the Internet we want. Thank you for being a part of this.
Always yours,
Nabiha Syed Executive Director Mozilla Foundation
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i went to the mozilla donation page and sent a contact request about wanting to financially support firefox but not giving a damn about the rest of the AI and adtech slop that mozilla is doing
here’s the response, for anyone that’s interested
That is interesting. Not sure what to think of it
Self hosted Firefox sync server
The last questions are kind of strange
I wish there had just been a single answer that said “Focus on Firefox and not AI”.
I kind of added that to the free text part.
Me too, but considering how many questions had AI in it…
Pretty much all of them. If I recall correctly, after the 3rd question everything was AI.
Unsure if it’s worth responding bc any platform that’s abandoned the “we give a shit about humans with no money “ vibe is just gone, but
please let’s all consider just ruining this for the slopmasters who are asking us for information for free. RUIN I say.
Seems simple.
And find ways to pay for #4, of course.
My dream is one where exclusive and limited edition physical game content isn’t exclusive or limited anymore. Because you’re fucking over latecomers who don’t have $1k+ to spend on that shit a decade later, dipshits. At least make that stuff available digitally as PDF and STL files.
Also no more AI slop.
Well, my dream is for them to focus on the fucking browser and nothing else but given the whole question about “What’s important to me in AI” I think that’s out of the picture already
My dream for Mozilla is a browser that just fucking works, without spyware and without needing to update every 2 days
IMO they should focus purely on Firefox and maybe Thunderbird, everything else is unneeded. Mozilla VPN is fine but Mullvad exists and their email relay service isn’t that great tbh. Other then that cut executive pay to represent the actural value they bring (next to nothing) and work with Firefox forks to harden base Firefox.
mozilla vpn uses mullvad servers btw
Thats why I think its pointless, its just Mullvad but less secure and less private
Last Mozilla survey I filled out had a Mozilla domain. Is this actually Mozilla?
Bring back your Advocacy division. Lower the pay for your CEO. Secure funding from other entities so that you are no longer dependent on Google. Focus more on implementing better security measures on Linux and Android, specifically within the domain of sandboxing your open processes. Keep about:config and manifest v2 options available.
My Dream would be that they split Mozilla into Foundations for each product and collaborate like Firefox Foundation which has nothing to do with advertising division at HQ
Stop paying the CEO so much!
Firefox could by now have:
Seriously, WTF? Why the hell is this relevant? Is this some American thing?
This question makes the survey highly illegal in France
I often do surveys online and the American ones always ask this. They like to lump all people who look alike together and don’t even bother asking where you’re from. They really believe we are split in different species or something.
Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.
My fav categories are when they ask your race typically: white, black, Asian, Hispanic etc. Lumping insanely large groups together.
Or the one that asks: Hispanic or non-Hispanic.
Typically both are asked. What the hell does the Hispanic specific question answer that the first didn’t
One is asking about skin color, the other is asking about cultural heritage. For example, a person from South America with only European ancestry would be [white, Hispanic], and a Japanese-Brazilian would be [Asian, Hispanic].
The real issue is that they’re irrelevant questions that survey-givers have no legitimate reason to want to know.
Thanks for explaining that, it’s funny tho that the only heritages that matter are if you’re a recent immigrant or not….
Yeah I never answer these questions
Male and female are also insanely large groups but I’ll never understand why the color of your skin is so important in the land of the free.