Mozilla

Microsoft crushed it by giving Internet Explorer away for free.

Then Netscape open sourced Mozilla out of desperation.

Two decades later, the dominant browser engine on the planet is Chromium.

which is open source and maintained mostly by Google, because owning the substrate is worth more to Google than charging for it.

But, but for right now, I would say the, the one little shining star, other than helping me not send a stupid text message with a typo, which is pretty useful, um, has been this finding bugs in software thing, right? Like- Right ...

Mozilla's doing this with Firefox, Microsoft, all the platform makers are doing it, et cetera.

They're all a little overwhelmed 'cause there's so much of it, but- Yeah ...

but a good thing, right? Um, so I guess they've seen, um, [laughs] uh, an explosion of submissions to, um, uh, something no one should be using anyway, which is the Microsoft Edge, uh, add-in website, which is where you get extensions for Microsoft Edge.

This shift influences the broader web ecosystem, as Chrome's status as the world's most used browser sets industry standards.

Other major browsers, including those from Mozilla, Microsoft, and Brave, have started adopting similar two-week release schedules following Chrome's lead.

It's part of a broader trend, as Chrome previously moved from a six-week to a four-week cycle in 2021.

OpenAI is set to launch ChatGPT Images 2.5, a new version of its image generation tool.

No cloud servers, nothing like that.

So- It is actually one of the very few programs or apps or services that actually got the Mozilla 10 out of 10 score in terms of privacy.

That's incredible.

I'll spell it again.

Today, we have Shoshana.

She works in privacy at Mozilla.

I'll let you introduce yourself, tell us what you do exactly, and break it down for our audience.

Hey guys, I'm Shoshana Wadinski.

I actually used to work for Daypart back in the day, but now as Bogdan said, I am a privacy research analyst for a bunch of nonprofits, including Mozilla, where I do research into period apps, personal health apps, just uncovering the sort of like privacy issues inherent there.

Before I did that, I worked for the Federal Trade Commission under Lena Kahn, where I worked alongside lawyers on privacy and data protection cases.

So you're the best expert for our topic today, which is data collection and how it's going to be made worse with AI.

Gamblers want to gamble.

To the apple and probably the Google play stores that that stuff is probably exploded because anyone can make an app now and anyone is, and my God, are they so high quality? Um, and there's that.

But then they're also using AI, which to me, to this point, I mean, look, eventually, maybe it's going to solve diseases and things like that, and that will be amazing, right? But for right now, I would say the one little shining star, other than helping me not send a stupid text message with a typo, which is pretty useful, has been this finding bugs in software thing, right? Like Mozilla's doing this with Firefox, Microsoft, all the platform makers are doing it, et cetera.

They're all a little overwhelmed because there's so much of it, but But a good thing, right? So I guess they've seen an explosion of submissions to something no one should be using anyway, which is the Microsoft Edge add-in website, which is where you get extensions for Microsoft Edge.

You could just get them from Google, right? Those all work fine too, but...