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0 pointssyshum7y ago0 comments

I dont believe Mozilla prioritizes their philosophy enough, they are tooo quick to cave in in the name of "customer centricity" instead of standing up for the Open Web which is and should be the SOLE reason they exist

Mozilla Foundation is a Non-profit foundation who mission to the ensure the web is open and accessible to all, not to make the most commercially successful web browser

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zaarn7y ago· 2 in thread

If nobody uses their browser and nobody contributes to their project, then the point of defending an open web is kinda moot.

It's not the hill I want Mozilla's philosophy to die on because if they do (and they will if they do as you ask), then there is no point to it. The open web dies to thundering applause from Google employees.

syshumOP7y ago

Same result if they cave in to everything Google does in lock step with them as they do today?

I fail to see how having FireFox around has a Chrome Clone is in anyway different

zaarn7y ago

Mozilla does plenty to differentiate from Chrome and does a lot of work to increase privacy for web users. They have to make compromises in places to make sure they are relevant enough to push privacy elsewhere. (And of course there is lots of google shilling to spread paranoia about Mozilla).

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