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Genuinely, if they want to help fix the internet, they should sack everyone not doing core browser work and spend every penny they have spare on marketing to in
by chillydawg 6y ago
Genuinely, if they want to help fix the internet, they should sack everyone not doing core browser work and spend every penny they have spare on marketing to increase their market share. Busses, billboards, TV, radio, Google ads, whatever. Spend it all. Millions a month, internationally. With balance in the browser market comes accountability for Google, which is sorely lacking. Everything else is just mucking about, imo.
- emilsedgh 6y agoMozilla is in a infinite game. An all-in approach like that could be fatal. They are in this for the long term. Specially because they can be out-spent massively. If Google, Microsoft, Apple, any of the competitors want, they can outspend Mozilla during their "burn all money" campaign and drown them. Also, Mozilla doesn't exist to "make Google accountable". Mozilla is there to ensure the web stays open, and it's been doing a damn-fine job at that. Not perfect; but damn good. Update: Also, how does balance in browser market make Google accountable? Google is far bigger than Chrome.
- snazz 6y agoI find it very hard to believe that Mozilla would have any luck with any amount of advertising. Firefox offers no features that are useful to non-technical people that Chrome doesn't have. If anything, it's worse for the average person, since there are quite a few sites that don't work well in Firefox. It's not crazy fast like Chrome was compared to Firefox when Chrome came out. Privacy is difficult to quantify or feel, so it's not really an effective marketing technique to market to a large number of people.
- asdff 6y agoFF does strain your overall system a lot more than chrome. If they kept track of this, users will see better battery life. I save hours, personally.