[2023] Mozilla and Gary Vee fund cryptocurrency company Webacy (www.coindesk.com)

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Gary Vee is a notorious ~~grifter~~ NFT salesman with a checkered past.

Webacy is a cryptocurrency wallet "technology layer" that "provides security features" like password backup, "digital wills", etc.

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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 15 points 17 hours ago

Mozilla, as always, late to the party.

Crypto and NFT scam were a thing long ago.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 14 hours ago

Crypto and NFT scam were a thing long ago.

So was this article :) Not that there ever was a party.

Luckily Firefox remained a fine browser throughout the crypto nonsense, so I'm hoping the same holds true when the next AI winter sets in.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

Even back in 2023 this was all old stuff … NFT scam was a big thing in 2021 and the crypto hype was a thing around 2013-2018. It’s both still there, but no-one really cares anymore as far as I can tell.

so I’m hoping the same holds true when the next AI winter sets in.

They are already sinking millions into the AI hype :(

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago

Mozilla purchased FakeSpot back in May 2023, and at the time, I sounded the alarm because of the dubious privacy policy they imported without changing.

People told me to Wait and See. And I waited, and Mozilla never changed it.

Unfortunately, if you Wait and See for too long, things apparently become Too Old Too Matter.

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