I used to be a big fan of the #Opera #browser. And what I see happening now with #Firefox is very similar to what happened with Opera.
Opera Software ASA acquired AdMarvel, a mobile advertising company, in 2010. Advertising became the primary business, and the browser was sidelined, dropped its own engine, and was eventually sold to Chinese investors, who completed the enshittification. The spirit around the original Opera was reborn with #Vivaldi, but the engine was lost.
#Mozilla acquired Anonym, an advertising company, in 2024 and started making really worrying decisions about Firefox...
I just hope it doesn't go the same way, for the sake of the Web.
Tomáš Znamenáček
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •When I was born, there was no Web. In fact, there was no Web when I first saw the Internet. Then WWW was invented as an improvement to gopher, because it was such a great idea.
If the Web dies, it will be re-invented.