Mozilla is pushing safety, privacy, and openness in their vision of the evolution of the web. The paper provides Mozilla’s view of what needs to happen and how it can occur, tackling issues such as users being spied on and burdened by complex and slow processes. They also note that much of the web is inaccessible or out of reach for many non-native English speakers and disabled individuals. An executive summary of their vision document can be found here.
Mozilla envisions a future where the web has no gatekeepers and a change in the way users are monetised through advertising strategies. They want everyone to be able to access the internet so they can reach out to others, empower those individuals to accomplish their goals, and ensure everyone can use the web without endangering themselves or others.
They have identified a number of actions that can be taken today to ensure these values can be upheld including the protection of user privacy by removing the current surveillance mechanisms such as cross-site tracking and the protection from malicious code by ensuring web browser developers are routinely patching and preventing future security vulnerabilities.
In addition, they suggest that encryption should occur in legacy protocols such as DNS and newer protocols rather than at the HTTP-level for each webpage. They state the infrastructure of the web and the browsers used to surf it need to be much faster and people should be able to publish information and data easier to enable more sharing. They also add that non-native English speakers and disabled people require a more accessible web and deserve a first-class experience that others have.
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