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Well it is a red panda, i.e. a firefox. In fact, "Turning Red" could be seen as a metaphor for switching from Chrome to Firefox (in addition to, uhhh, the adven
by robbrown451 5y ago
Well it is a red panda, i.e. a firefox. In fact, "Turning Red" could be seen as a metaphor for switching from Chrome to Firefox (in addition to, uhhh, the advent of menstruation).
Maybe if they had managed to sneak some product placement for Firefox into the movie it would balance things out and make it seem better.
In all seriousness, I don't like it either, but I wish the question wasn't so unnecessarily hostile ("Disney shit") toward a Pixar movie that I and my young daughter found quite delightful. That kinda makes me want to defend Mozilla.
- spencerflem 5y agoIt's wild the amount of rage hackernews seems to have for Mozilla while it is still the only major privacy-focused browser.
- userbinator 5y agoThat's precisely because Mozilla is supposed to be the "good guys", but they keep doing stupid things like this to anger their userbase.
- spencerflem 5y agoTheir engineers need to get paid. Mozilla isn't completely perfect, but they are very good, and getting more independent funding seems like a positive thing to me.
- lamontcg 5y ago"Mozilla isn't fully perfect and unflawed, so I guess I have no choice but to let Google run the whole web without any competition." Don't we have posts on here every other day about getting over perfectionism and how its bad?
- userbinator 5y agoRed is also associated with communism --- which especially given the recent events in Ukraine, seems rather unfortunate of a coincidence.
- woodruffw 5y agoAre you operating under the belief that either Ukraine or Russia is communist?