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> Despite Mozilla's kowtowing to the video streaming industries, Firefox users have continued to switch to other browsers anyway: market share has dropped from
by Vinnl 8y ago
> Despite Mozilla's kowtowing to the video streaming industries, Firefox users have continued to switch to other browsers anyway: market share has dropped from 14% in 2014 to today's woeful 5%. In other words, Mozilla betrayed its core mission to preserve the open internet, for no gain whatsoever.
I think this is very disingenuous, for three reasons:
1) It pretends like it's a certainty that Mozilla's market share wouldn't have fallen further without the move.
2) It pretends like whatever effect implementing/not implementing EME would have had could be predicted by Mozilla at the time with 100% certainty.
3) The article doesn't at all mention all of Mozilla's efforts to keep EME from being standardised in the first place.
Which is a shame: an otherwise interesting article has an aftertaste of also being a misleading propaganda piece, even if I agree with the goal of the propaganda.
- antisthenes 8y agoIt's disingenuous firstly because we're treating market share as the only measure of success for a browser. Obviously if that's the case, it matters little what niche browsers do anyway - because they lost the battle to Chrome years ago.
- Vinnl 8y agoI would say it's an important measure of success though: a lot of what Mozilla can do, it can only do thanks to its market share. This includes influencing the W3C, lobbying politicians with actual experience making a browser, and financially supporting that work. Furthermore, if Mozilla had a market share of 80%, they would have been in a far better position to actually fight EME.