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Google far surpasses Mozilla in both revenue and market share. Yet, Google pays its executives a much lower percentage of overall revenue. For instance, in 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai earned '''$1.88 million''', which was only '''0.0014%''' of Google’s '''$136.8 billion''' in revenue<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Sec.gov_Archives_edgar_data_1652044_000130817918000222_lgoog2018-def14a.htm.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2018 Proxy Statement]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:20180204_alphabet_10K.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2018 10-K Filing]</ref>. By 2023, his compensation increased to '''$8.8 million''', yet it still amounted to just '''0.0029%''' of Google’s staggering '''$307.4 billion''' in revenue<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Google_def-14a_2023.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2023 Proxy Statement]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Goog-10-k-2023.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2023 10-K Filing]</ref>.

Google far surpasses Mozilla in both revenue and market share. Yet, Google pays its executives a much lower percentage of overall revenue. For instance, in 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai earned '''$1.88 million''', which was only '''0.0014%''' of Google’s '''$136.8 billion''' in revenue.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Sec.gov_Archives_edgar_data_1652044_000130817918000222_lgoog2018-def14a.htm.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2018 Proxy Statement]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:20180204_alphabet_10K.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2018 10-K Filing]</ref> By 2023, his compensation increased to '''$8.8 million''', yet it still amounted to just '''0.0029%''' of Google’s staggering '''$307.4 billion''' in revenue.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Google_def-14a_2023.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2023 Proxy Statement]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Goog-10-k-2023.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2023 10-K Filing]</ref>

In stark contrast, Mozilla’s leadership has consistently taken home a much larger percentage of the organization's revenue, despite its financial struggles & crushing defeat in browser market share. In 2018, Mitchell Baker received '''$2.46 million''', amounting to '''0.55%''' of Mozilla’s total combined revenue of '''$450.9 million'''<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-2018-form-990.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2018 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2018-short-form-final-0926.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2018 Financial Statement]</ref>. By 2023, as Mozilla’s total combined revenue increased to '''$653 million''', executive compensation stayed disproportionately high: Baker received '''$6.22 million''' ('''0.95%''' of total revenue)<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:B200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-1209.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Financial Statement]</ref>. Meanwhile, Mark Surman, who only works for the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit), earned '''$661,886''', which accounted for '''1.02%''' of the Foundation’s '''$64.7 million''' in revenue<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:B200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-1209.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Financial Statement]</ref>.

In stark contrast, Mozilla’s leadership has consistently taken home a much larger percentage of the organization's revenue, despite its financial struggles & crushing defeat in browser market share. In 2018, Mitchell Baker received '''$2.46 million''', amounting to '''0.55%''' of Mozilla’s total combined revenue of '''$450.9 million'''.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-2018-form-990.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2018 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2018-short-form-final-0926.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2018 Financial Statement]</ref> By 2023, as Mozilla’s total combined revenue increased to '''$653 million''', executive compensation stayed disproportionately high: Baker received '''$6.22 million''' ('''0.95%''' of total revenue).<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:B200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-1209.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Financial Statement]</ref> Meanwhile, Mark Surman, who only works for the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit), earned '''$661,886''', which accounted for '''1.02%''' of the Foundation’s '''$64.7 million''' in revenue.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:B200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-1209.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Financial Statement]</ref>

The disparity between Mozilla’s executive pay & its financial performance is shocking—Google, a company with '''infinitely''' more market success, compensates its CEO at a fraction of its revenue, while Mozilla, a failing browser in terms of market share, provides a much higher percentage of its limited revenue to executive salaries to individuals that contribute no code.

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[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-gla]

[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref>, while being disabled by default many users where confused and worried<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/</ref> to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." which was later expended later to include references to Mozilla's collaboration<ref>Loocking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c</ref>

[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref>, while being disabled by default many users where confused and worried<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/</ref> to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." which was later expended later to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref>Loocking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c</ref>

The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags<ref>looking glass extension injecting ~~html~~ https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref>, tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears upside down and the tooltips work<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78</ref>. Also three specific website did have their header changed to have a value "x-1057" injected.

The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref>, tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears upside down and the tooltips work<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78</ref>. Also three specific website did have their header changed to have a value "x-1057" injected.

While the extension could in rare occasion break some website with the HTML and CSS injection, it did not do anything malicious or dangerous, the extension was not collecting any personal information at all which Mozilla qualified a mistake in their response addressing the issue<ref name=":1" />

While the extension could in rare occasion break some website with the HTML and CSS injection, it did not do anything malicious or dangerous, the extension was not collecting any personal information at all which Mozilla qualified a mistake in their response addressing the issue.<ref name=":1" />

<blockquote>'''A SHIELD study must be designed to answer a specific question.'''

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==Alternatives==

There are other browsers using the same browser engine as Firefox, but with the telemetry and data gathering removed and privacy ~~firendly~~ preferences set by default. For desktop operating systems, this includes [https://librewolf.net/ LibreWolf] and [https://icecatbrowser.org/index.html GNU Ice Cat]. On Android, [https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ Fennec] is available via the F-Droid store.

There are other browsers using the same browser engine as Firefox, but with the telemetry and data gathering removed and privacy friendly preferences set by default. For desktop operating systems, this includes [https://librewolf.net/ LibreWolf] and [https://icecatbrowser.org/index.html GNU Ice Cat]. On Android, [https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ Fennec] is available via the F-Droid store.

Completely free alternative browsers are currently under active development, some of which show promise to become viable truly independent open source browser engines in the forseeable future. These include the [https://ladybird.org/ Ladybird] browser initiated by SerenityOS creator Andreas Kling.

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-Google far surpasses Mozilla in both revenue and market share. Yet, Google pays its executives a much lower percentage of overall revenue. For instance, in 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai earned '''$1.88 million''', which was only '''0.0014%''' of Google’s '''$136.8 billion''' in revenue<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Sec.gov_Archives_edgar_data_1652044_000130817918000222_lgoog2018-def14a.htm.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2018 Proxy Statement]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:20180204_alphabet_10K.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2018 10-K Filing]</ref>. By 2023, his compensation increased to '''$8.8 million''', yet it still amounted to just '''0.0029%''' of Google’s staggering '''$307.4 billion''' in revenue<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Google_def-14a_2023.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2023 Proxy Statement]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Goog-10-k-2023.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2023 10-K Filing]</ref>.
+Google far surpasses Mozilla in both revenue and market share. Yet, Google pays its executives a much lower percentage of overall revenue. For instance, in 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai earned '''$1.88 million''', which was only '''0.0014%''' of Google’s '''$136.8 billion''' in revenue.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Sec.gov_Archives_edgar_data_1652044_000130817918000222_lgoog2018-def14a.htm.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2018 Proxy Statement]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:20180204_alphabet_10K.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2018 10-K Filing]</ref> By 2023, his compensation increased to '''$8.8 million''', yet it still amounted to just '''0.0029%''' of Google’s staggering '''$307.4 billion''' in revenue.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Google_def-14a_2023.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2023 Proxy Statement]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Goog-10-k-2023.pdf Alphabet Inc. 2023 10-K Filing]</ref>
-In stark contrast, Mozilla’s leadership has consistently taken home a much larger percentage of the organization's revenue, despite its financial struggles & crushing defeat in browser market share. In 2018, Mitchell Baker received '''$2.46 million''', amounting to '''0.55%''' of Mozilla’s total combined revenue of '''$450.9 million'''<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-2018-form-990.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2018 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2018-short-form-final-0926.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2018 Financial Statement]</ref>. By 2023, as Mozilla’s total combined revenue increased to '''$653 million''', executive compensation stayed disproportionately high: Baker received '''$6.22 million''' ('''0.95%''' of total revenue)<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:B200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-1209.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Financial Statement]</ref>. Meanwhile, Mark Surman, who only works for the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit), earned '''$661,886''', which accounted for '''1.02%''' of the Foundation’s '''$64.7 million''' in revenue<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:B200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-1209.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Financial Statement]</ref>.
+In stark contrast, Mozilla’s leadership has consistently taken home a much larger percentage of the organization's revenue, despite its financial struggles & crushing defeat in browser market share. In 2018, Mitchell Baker received '''$2.46 million''', amounting to '''0.55%''' of Mozilla’s total combined revenue of '''$450.9 million'''.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-2018-form-990.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2018 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2018-short-form-final-0926.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2018 Financial Statement]</ref> By 2023, as Mozilla’s total combined revenue increased to '''$653 million''', executive compensation stayed disproportionately high: Baker received '''$6.22 million''' ('''0.95%''' of total revenue).<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:B200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-1209.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Financial Statement]</ref> Meanwhile, Mark Surman, who only works for the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit), earned '''$661,886''', which accounted for '''1.02%''' of the Foundation’s '''$64.7 million''' in revenue.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:B200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref><ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:Mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-1209.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Financial Statement]</ref>
 The disparity between Mozilla’s executive pay & its financial performance is shocking—Google, a company with '''infinitely''' more market success, compensates its CEO at a fraction of its revenue, while Mozilla, a failing browser in terms of market share, provides a much higher percentage of its limited revenue to executive salaries to individuals that contribute no code.
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 [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-gla]
-[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref>, while being disabled by default many users where confused and worried<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension  https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/</ref> to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." which was later expended later to include references to Mozilla's collaboration<ref>Loocking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c</ref>
+[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref>, while being disabled by default many users where confused and worried<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension  https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/</ref> to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." which was later expended later to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref>Loocking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c</ref>
-The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags<ref>looking glass extension injecting html https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref>, tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears upside down and the tooltips work<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78</ref>. Also three specific website did have their header changed to have a value "x-1057"  injected.
+The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref>, tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears upside down and the tooltips work<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78</ref>. Also three specific website did have their header changed to have a value "x-1057"  injected.
-While the extension could in rare occasion break some website with the HTML and CSS injection, it did not do anything malicious or dangerous, the extension was not collecting any personal information at all which Mozilla qualified a mistake in their response addressing the issue<ref name=":1" />
+While the extension could in rare occasion break some website with the HTML and CSS injection, it did not do anything malicious or dangerous, the extension was not collecting any personal information at all which Mozilla qualified a mistake in their response addressing the issue.<ref name=":1" />
 <blockquote>'''A SHIELD study must be designed to answer a specific question.'''
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 ==Alternatives==
-There are other browsers using the same browser engine as Firefox, but with the telemetry and data gathering removed and privacy firendly preferences set by default. For desktop operating systems, this includes [https://librewolf.net/ LibreWolf] and [https://icecatbrowser.org/index.html GNU Ice Cat]. On Android, [https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ Fennec] is available via the F-Droid store.
+There are other browsers using the same browser engine as Firefox, but with the telemetry and data gathering removed and privacy friendly preferences set by default. For desktop operating systems, this includes [https://librewolf.net/ LibreWolf] and [https://icecatbrowser.org/index.html GNU Ice Cat]. On Android, [https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ Fennec] is available via the F-Droid store.
 Completely free alternative browsers are currently under active development, some of which show promise to become viable truly independent open source browser engines in the forseeable future. These include the [https://ladybird.org/ Ladybird] browser initiated by SerenityOS creator Andreas Kling.