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Mozilla Is Flailing When the Internet Needs It the Most

• Wired

Almost a generation ago, everyone worried Microsoft, which had the dominant web browser of the time, could dictate the content people saw and the tools developers use. Its dominance faded, but the rise of mobile prompted new concerns about the role Apple and Google play as gatekeepers to the web. And Facebook's control over what people see and share online continues growing.

Since its founding in 2003, the Mozilla Foundation has served as a check on the power of tech giants like those. It's among the few organizations in Silicon Valley that isn't out to make anyone rich. Although its for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corp., has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars through its partnership with Google, that money finances the development of the Firefox web browser and other open source projects. Unlike other tech companies, Mozilla needn't collect massive amounts of personal data to mine for marketing gold.


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