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- don't fight evil with evil - two wrongs don't make a right - can't put out fire with more fire etc. sorry for the lazy response, but too many exactly fitti

• olavfosse 3y ago
  Putting out fire with more fire works very well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn
• Ensorceled 3y ago
  The idiom is literally “fight fire with fire” Also, “the enemy of my enemy, is my friend”
  • Sindisil 3y ago
    Maxim 29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
    • stjohnswarts 3y ago
      That doesn't mean what they're doing isn't to your advantage.
  • marcosdumay 3y ago
    > “the enemy of my enemy, is my friend” That one basically never leads to anything good.
    • Ensorceled 3y ago
      Well, none of these are “words to live by” so you’re not wrong.
• louthy 3y ago
  > can't put out fire with more fire But can you put out a fire with Firefox?
• TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
  What’s the alternative? If Chrome takes over on iOS too then what? Let Google unilaterally decide the future of the web? Personal information extraction for ad targeting purposes will be on by default and eventually be made very hard to turn off. New features that’s good for the web but Google doesn’t like because it threatens their ad business or they just don’t like it because of “not invented here” will die in the crib - see JPEGXL; Apple is trying to push for it but if Chrome displaces Safari that hope will be completely extinguished. Now we at least have a choice …
• Y_Y 3y ago
  > two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left!