After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product

Specifically, Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in a number of products, including its VPN, Relay and, somewhat remarkably, its Online Footprint Scrubber, which launched only a week ago. Mozilla will also shut down Hubs, the 3D virtual world it launched back in 2018, and scale back its investment in its mozilla.social Mastodon instance. The layoffs will affect roughly 60 employees. Bloomberg previously reported the layoffs.

Yo, wtf. Their VPN, Relay and Monitor are basically the only Mozilla services I’d use and pay for. To me this sounds like this is the wrong direction. What do you guys think?

  • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I don’t like it either, but if focusing on Firefox lets them market Firefox and somehow win back user-share, then maybe it’d be worth it…

      • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        VPN, Relay, and Online Footprint Scrubber, apparently. We’ll see what else, in time.

        Edit: Oh, and downsizing, fuck. Forgot about that part, that really sucks. :(