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Tangentially related, but your comment reminded me of this classic: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-seems-to-speak-using-creepy-gibb

by Zuiii 3y ago

Tangentially related, but your comment reminded me of this classic: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-seems-to-speak-using-creepy-gibberish-lunatic/td-p/16863 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...

phatfish 3y ago
Maybe if author of that comment put as much effort into developing their own browser as they seemed to put into that weird rant we would have a new Chrome competitor which meets their exceptions.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  The entitlement and blatant hypocrisy of Mozilla haters is insane. "Mozilla does weird things to try and diversify their income so that Google cannot shut them down one day randomly if they're finally competitive, but that's not the one blessed thing of committing code to the single blessed repository of Firefox, so instead I'm going to use the browser built by a company that makes all of its money through advertising, explicitly sends pretty much everything you do in their browser to their advertising apparatus, repeatedly pushed unnecessary "standards" that would make it easier to fingerprint users, and is now trying to tee-up a standard that will make it possible to cryptographically prevent users from blocking ads in the future." Come the fuck on
  - friend_and_foe 3y ago
    See you misunderstand me. I don't use chrome. I don't like chrome. chrome mobile doesn't allow extensions either, and pretty obviously to protect google from adblockers. It seems to me that your only argument is chrome is evil, and I never once said I use chrome. You're arguing with someone that isn't here. I don't believe Mozilla cares about the open web. If they did they wouldn't continuously kneecap their users. They use this open web argument to browbeat people into accepting their awful decisions that users don't like, then they do things one after another that have a predictable outcome of reducing their market share. Hard line firefox users make every excuse in the world for why people should tolerate any abuse they throw at people, it's similar to how political parties scaremonger about their opponents. It's grimy. I want to like firefox. I want to use it. It's frustrating seeing it fall like this which is where the anger comes from. It's like having a fuck up brother and when you tell him he needs to quit fucking up he calls you a piece of shit tool of the bourgeoise. Who needs that bullshit in their lives? So I don't feel entitled to Firefox, I use alternatives.
  - Zuiii 3y ago
    Many don't see this way. His criticisms were funny and on point to boot ;)
- friend_and_foe 3y ago
  So I could build a web browser with 5 minutes of typing online? Wow.
- Zuiii 3y ago
  Don't be ridiculous. Voicing his disillusionment in a funny witty way is orders of magnitude less effort than writing an entire browser.

by Zuiii 3y ago

phatfish 3y ago

Maybe if author of that comment put as much effort into developing their own browser as they seemed to put into that weird rant we would have a new Chrome competitor which meets their exceptions.

mrguyorama 3y ago
The entitlement and blatant hypocrisy of Mozilla haters is insane. "Mozilla does weird things to try and diversify their income so that Google cannot shut them down one day randomly if they're finally competitive, but that's not the one blessed thing of committing code to the single blessed repository of Firefox, so instead I'm going to use the browser built by a company that makes all of its money through advertising, explicitly sends pretty much everything you do in their browser to their advertising apparatus, repeatedly pushed unnecessary "standards" that would make it easier to fingerprint users, and is now trying to tee-up a standard that will make it possible to cryptographically prevent users from blocking ads in the future." Come the fuck on
- friend_and_foe 3y ago
  See you misunderstand me. I don't use chrome. I don't like chrome. chrome mobile doesn't allow extensions either, and pretty obviously to protect google from adblockers. It seems to me that your only argument is chrome is evil, and I never once said I use chrome. You're arguing with someone that isn't here. I don't believe Mozilla cares about the open web. If they did they wouldn't continuously kneecap their users. They use this open web argument to browbeat people into accepting their awful decisions that users don't like, then they do things one after another that have a predictable outcome of reducing their market share. Hard line firefox users make every excuse in the world for why people should tolerate any abuse they throw at people, it's similar to how political parties scaremonger about their opponents. It's grimy. I want to like firefox. I want to use it. It's frustrating seeing it fall like this which is where the anger comes from. It's like having a fuck up brother and when you tell him he needs to quit fucking up he calls you a piece of shit tool of the bourgeoise. Who needs that bullshit in their lives? So I don't feel entitled to Firefox, I use alternatives.
- Zuiii 3y ago
  Many don't see this way. His criticisms were funny and on point to boot ;)
friend_and_foe 3y ago
So I could build a web browser with 5 minutes of typing online? Wow.
Zuiii 3y ago
Don't be ridiculous. Voicing his disillusionment in a funny witty way is orders of magnitude less effort than writing an entire browser.