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> Firefox doesn't play much of a role in this fight. In fact, Firefox never did anything pro-actively to make ad-tech sweat. The decision by Mozilla to block al
by twblalock 7y ago
> Firefox doesn't play much of a role in this fight. In fact, Firefox never did anything pro-actively to make ad-tech sweat. The decision by Mozilla to block all third-party cookies in 2013 [7] was reverted in fear of Ad-Tech.
This is the problem I have with Mozilla -- they claim to be defending the internet, but they clearly have no leverage or power to effect change because their market share is so small.
I can't name a single bad thing that Mozilla has prevented from happening to the internet in the past decade or so.
I also cannot think of a single good thing that happened only because of Mozilla's support. A lot of this do-not-track stuff, for example, was pushed by other browser vendors and would have happened whether Mozilla wanted it or not.
- clouddrover 7y ago> I also cannot think of a single good thing that happened only because of Mozilla's support. Some examples I can think of: - asm.js, which led to WebAssembly: http://asmjs.org/ http://asmjs.org/ - Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/ https://www.rust-lang.org/ - One half of Opus: https://www.opus-codec.org/ https://www.opus-codec.org/ - Firefox Send: https://send.firefox.com/ https://send.firefox.com/ - MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
- callahad 7y agoDon't forget Let's Encrypt!
- ebj73 7y agoJust providing an alternative browser to Chrome is a good thing, in my opinion. Especially now that Microsoft also has caved in. I think it would be bad if Chrome where to have even less competition than it has today. So, I put Firefox down as a good thing for the Internet, on the whole.