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Another CEO for mozilla. Good or bad news?

I'm enjoying this. Also Musk went out and said that he wants barriers on trade or else the Chinese companies will dominate the market.

I thought Musk would be happy, because he truly wants to save the planet doesn't he? It shouldn't matter if he or someone else makes the best electric cars then?

This is so strange to me. I guess people enjoy being ripped off and getting less and less value for their money.

This could be promising!

Im one of those die hard firefox users and have been using it for over a decade.

It's quite worrying that it relies on Google to exist. This article details the finances behind it, and it's an interesting read.

• Mozilla have tons of money, and the donations are tiny in comparison to their real revenue stream.

• 70% of revenue comes from Google, by having Google Search as a default search engine.

• Its not clear where the revenue is being spent. There are no large costs.

Veilid is “an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first networked application framework, with a flagship secure messaging application named VeilidChat.” Application frameworks of this sort are flexible software packages that can be iterated on and changed by infusing new code into them. Developers who want to create new programs with the same privacy protections will be able to build off of Veilid’s open source structures.

Cult members say their protocol is built from the same digital DNA as the Tor browser and the chat app Signal and will be used to create new ways for folks to communicate, share files, and generally surf the web while simultaneously protecting their privacy. The idea is to offer users an escape from the constant data collection and monetization that undergirds most web interactions (also commonly referred to as “surveillance capitalism”).

Veilid is written in Rust (just like Lemmy btw) and the group will talk about it on the next Defcon conference.

• https://forum.defcon.org/node/246124