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My theory for a while now has been that we hold Mozilla to a higher standard and that's why they get flak and lose users over what others get away with. They're
by Aachen 2y ago
My theory for a while now has been that we hold Mozilla to a higher standard and that's why they get flak and lose users over what others get away with. They're supposed to be better, so when they do something you'd expect from Google, people go to... Google? It makes no logical sense but this keeps happening. Or if not Google then some other thing with a questionable business model, or something that depends on Mozilla continuing to maintain Firefox
Same goes for, eh, everything else actually: from political parties to non-profits, any time something isn't executed perfectly or some compromise needs to be made, people pull the rug by moving away (votes, donations, spreading the word, whatnot) and we're more in the hands of the orgs we wanted to oppose than before. Bathwater baby sports. We should hold olympics for them
- account42 2y agoIt's not really a higher standard. Mozilla does more or less the same shit Google does but also lies to us about being privacy friendly on top of it. The scorn is well-earned.
- Aachen 2y agoIt's hard to put a number on shittiness, not sure how to objectively look at this at all so idk what to say besides that this seems very much out there to me. They don't have any illegal monopolies (acquired not through being better but through a legit monopoly boosting their other products), don't run the biggest tracking ad firm in the world, don't track you across the web after luring you into logging in in the browser, don't have a closed source version of the browser with more features, don't deprecate functional ad blocking, don't run walled gardens like youtube... it's hard to come up with a single way in which Google is more trustworthy than Mozilla. How can you say they're even close to up to the same shit?