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0 pointsTuringTest7y ago0 comments

It's great that you have political reasons to use Firefox. But to be most effective, you have to recognize that most other users won't care about it that strongly, so you have to use arguments that matter to them in a practical way.

This way, you can switch your acquaintances to use Firefox, and they'll stay with it by inertia. I'd say that's a win-win.

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johnchristopher7y ago· 1 in thread

> It's great that you have political reasons to use Firefox.

I don't think I am making myself clear. Everyone has a cultural and political profile that dictates some choices and it doesn't matter if they acknowledge it or not.

> But to be most effective, you have to recognize that most other users won't care about it that strongly, so you have to use arguments that matter to them in a practical way.

Oh, but the privacy and anti-ad argument is a strong political argument that will outlive the tech of the day.

> and they'll stay with it by inertia.

And if Mozilla pulls a google and becomes evil, that inertia is now a problem you have to overcome on other grounds than the tech.

It's an easy and short term win-win until the next HN article "ff slower than chrome in test XYZ, jump ships everyone !".

TuringTestOP6y ago

> Oh, but the privacy and anti-ad argument is a strong political argument that will outlive the tech of the day.

Right, but that doesn't matter an inch if you can't use it to convince people to switch to a FLOSS browser.

> It's an easy and short term win-win until the next HN article "ff slower than chrome in test XYZ, jump ships everyone !".

And then it's time to make political arguments, when they're already using Firefox, are accustomed to it and have all its configurations and workflows in this tool. This way you use the powerful force of inertia in your favor, instead of fighting it.

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