I know a few people that are going to be very conflicted reading this. I mean really Mozilla is just one slippery slope decision from being the equivalent of Palantir or Nestlé...lol
this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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Good move.
But... The open internet? Unfortunately those days are long gone. Every other website requires a Google/Microsoft Single Sign-On. And the majority of the web is hosted with a few hyperscalers, so federation is broken as well.
Your Internet obviously does not look like my Internet. I can't remember ever seeing a site that didn't belong to Google or Microsoft that required their login garbage (I see commercial sites that offer it as an option for lazy people who are unable to understand that using it is not in their best interests, yes, but every single one I've encountered thus far has also had a local username/password system).
As for the hyperscalers, that's starting to break up a bit because of the number of countries the US has pissed off recently. People want to move their stuff back inside their own borders. It's a drop in the bucket so far, admittedly, but every little bit helps.
It does exist, but its small and separate from the "conglomonet", if you will.
I mean... The Fediverse, for one!
Even we quite often use Cloud flare. Those who resisted at first often changed their mind after getting hit with bot scraping DNS attacks. It's not trivially easy to deploy alternatives.
One Big Tech company blasts small websites with nonconsensual AI data scraping, while another Big Tech company offers protection... as long as they can watch everybody interact with your site.
Mafia-esque.
Rare Mozilla W?!
This is the kind of advocacy they should be doing.