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@nellie_m @aral @mastodonmigration @aurynn a) is wrong. It’s optional but default for people not already in and their attempt to simplify onboarding and get people started right away.
b) ignores that their biggest contributor is Mozilla. The people behind Firefox and the last bastion of the web before it all succumbs to Google.

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@del (a) Please see mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109942327

(b) Mozilla is funded by ~$500,000,000 every year from Google. It is, as their head of public policy once told me when we were both speaking at the conference of data protection officers in the EU, “just another Silicon Valley tech company… why are you holding us to such a higher standard?” (For additional irony, a lawyer from Facebook also had a keynote. For yet more irony, his last place of work was CNIL.)

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@del Not your fault for assuming they are what they should be – what they say they are – as opposed what they really are.

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@del @aral

Just for starters, they've have nice offices in the midst of SV, support several products, give out grants, etc. — all while charging for nothing…it's definitely a "follow the money" situation. (When I visited Mozilla about a decade ago my first question was "Who pays for all this?", and then it all clicked.)

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