Firefox: The Jewel^WEmbarassment of Open Source

A scathing critique of Mozilla and Firefox's decline, cataloguing a series of organizational failures: laying off 25% of engineers while raising executive pay 400%, adding ads to Firefox, routing browsing traffic to CloudFlare by default, and siding with Google in antitrust proceedings without disclosing their financial dependency on Google. The author argues Firefox has gone from the jewel of open source to its embarrassment, that the web is effectively a Google monopoly, and advocates abandoning the web in favor of the simpler Gemini protocol.