I don't understand what the endgame is supposed to be here. In order to achieve its stated goals (demilitarization, denazification, catching their list of enemies), Russia needs to occupy (which they said they won't, which makes no sense). There's no way Ukraine's govt can agree to or implement these demands.

So Russia will in fact need to occupy Ukraine and install a puppet govt. But how the are they ever going to get out of there ever again? That new government will get removed as soon as they leave.

So long term occupation it has to be, which will be a total disaster and that's on top of the sanctions. Russia just fucked itself, no? How does any of this make sense?

I just think that when Firefox dies, maintaining a chromium fork with Google tracking crap ripped out is going to be way easier than continuing development on Firefox, and can be done by way fewer people.

Yes, yes and yes. And Mozilla have been selling out their user's data since the day they took money from Google.

This is honestly what annoys me more than anything about Mozilla: they pretend to be champions for privacy, but they aren't. And people fall for it. They are controlled opposition. They are the social democrats of the privacy world: channeling privacy supporters into their compromise (and compromised) position and painting the radicals as unreasonable dreamers.

If they were to finally die, that would probably be good for online privacy. A real non-corrupt free software fork of chromium could take off with built-in ad blocking and actually good privacy defaults. Firefox is sucking the oxygen out of the room right now.

Ultimately all tracking and data collecting besides what's absolutely necessary needs to be declared 100% illegal. I have no hope Mozilla will help in this fight at all.