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Wow, I don't think anyone who commented here actually read anything in the paper. I strongly agree that Mozilla makes constant mis-steps and that the scope of w

Wow, I don't think anyone who commented here actually read anything in the paper. I strongly agree that Mozilla makes constant mis-steps and that the scope of web browsers is hugely problematic, but to dismiss anything they say outright over those concerns is very immature of the readers commenting here. Start from page 38 if you want to quickly get an idea of what Mozilla is complaining about here -- and they're goddamn right to complain about this. I haven't seen such a poor discussion on HN in a long time.

rezonant 4y ago
Every time browser freedom comes up, a good solid half of HN commentators claim they want a locked down system for themselves. They want a system they cannot hack on. So when these stories come up, it's more like "Don't Hacker News" Another minority points out that Linux is hackable and we should all just use that. I assume the number of these comments would be larger if the vast majority of Linux desktop users weren't tinkering with their X configs or fixing something that wildly broke after their update. If Apple implemented the web without obvious commercially incentivized malicious compliance, I wouldn't care as much if they restricted the browser, but I'd still care, because computing should be open. I am a fan of the Apple that made the 1984 commercial, even if I know now that it was the same marketing shit they always pull. They only cared that it wasn't their monopoly.