We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
The Internet is a Series of Webs
The fate of the open web is inextricable from the other ways our world is in crisis. What can we do about it?
Break up the Browsers. A Proposal to Save the Open Web. - Movement For An Open Web
The Open Web is one of the world’s modern wonders. Based on core, universally recognised technical standards and owned and controlled by no one body, it is a unique structureRead More
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
How to Fix the Web | Brave
The Web is always in trouble for some reason or other. I remember when Microsoft came after Netscape and threatened to lock Web standards into IE. Only the Web is so big, with such reach to billions of users, that no one owns it. This means it will always be contested ground.
Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era | The Mozilla Blog
If you’ve been running into endless CAPTCHAS or website login requests lately, you’re not imagining things. Websites, facing a rising tide of abu
The web can be weaponised – and we can't count on big tech to stop it | Tim Berners-Lee
It’s dangerous having a handful of companies control how ideas and opinions are shared. A regulator may be needed
The future of the open internet — and our way of life — is in your hands
There are a lot of scary things happening these days, but here’s what keeps me up late at night. A handful of corporations are turning our open internet into this: These corporations want to lock down the internet and give us access to nothing more ...
EFFecting Change: How to Build a Decentralized Web That Truly Works for All
What is it? - NoScript: consensual browsing!
The NoScript Security Suite is Free Software protecting Firefox (on Android, too!), Chrome, Edge, Brave and other web browsers. Install NoScript now!
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
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Mozilla's Vision for a Healthy, Sustainable Web | The Mozilla Blog
Not surprisingly, the latest discussions around content blocking have resulted in a polarizing debate about the users who choose to block content as a way
A better web
The web as it is today is, by design, ridden with hostility. The problems faced by its users fall into three main categories: ownership of identity, ownership of data, and surveillance capitalism. Websites want to own the identity of their users. This results in compromising either the convenience by having to log in to every site separately – or security and privacy, by outsourcing identity control to other third-party sites (“Would you like to log in with your Google or Facebook account?”), thus disclosing movements throughout the internet.
especially social media built on open protocols #ignore_atproto_at_your_peril
jared
so jev should be really interesting for social media sensemaking/organizational type usecases right
> The Mozilla Foundation isn't holding back its disdain for Big Tech leaders. > Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do. AT Protocol and the broader open social web is one of the ways we take back power from Big Tech. (If you see me out in these New York City streets, let me know.)
Business Insider
Mozilla's new ad campaign skewers tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk bit.ly/4xBAuDZ
