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> Why would Mozilla be trying to obfuscate setting the color of the browser? What's to gain from that? It says right in the article: allows our users to expres

> Why would Mozilla be trying to obfuscate setting the color of the browser? What's to gain from that? It says right in the article: allows our users to express their most authentic selves and to bring them joy while browsing the web.

nicbou 5y ago
But nobody speaks like that. Nobody even thinks like that. A normal human would have said "you can now change your browser's colour scheme, which we think is kinda nice".
- kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  > Nobody even thinks like that. There are a lot of people living in a head bubble who think they can put in two years at a FAANG and change the world. This is an outgrowth of that mentality where trivial things are sold as something revolutionary so someone can feel like they "made a difference".
  - nicbou 5y ago
    https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso
  - maccolgan 5y ago
    I didn't think Mozilla is really that out of touch though, they don't live in bubbles like FAANG people and are developing a open source product.
BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Exactly, in fact, I'm glad a software hue finally takes on the hard task of setting the meaning of my life right. All those futile things about people, spirituality and creating stuff were exhaustively complicated.
- Y_Y 5y ago
  You joke, but earning the right to change the colour of the hn top bar was an existential turning point for me.