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Since they positioned themselves against free speech and advocate certain ideologies, they have lost me forever. Good riddance.

I never worried about the performance of Firefox. It was good enough, and I miss some features like tags for bookmarks. But a betrayal of their original mission is unforgivable. Yes, other browsers belong to evil corporations, but at least they never claimed to be good to begin with.

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Eh, I can think of one evil company that used to have "don't be evil" or something like that as their motto in the distant past. I hear they make a pretty popular browser now.

I'm actually also not a fan of Google anymore, but I can at least relate to the "don't be evil" issue. It simply wasn't well enough defined, as different people consider different things "evil".

That was the main reason I left FF after being a user since Mozilla 1.0

Context?

Not OP, but here is some context: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

Now you're putting words in people's mouths :) FF has been involved with politics on way more than that. I don't know about the OP but you don't have to be a Trumpist to be put off by FF's campaigns.

(I'm the OP) It's not about Trump it is about the stated intent to amplify certain news outlets (they link to the New York Times as a "factual voice that needs to be amplified") and tone done or censor ("deplatform") others. I don't want my Browser to do that.

Nor do I want my browser to violate its own intended purpose.

They are essentially preaching 'privacy' to those wanting to a privacy-focused browser and product and having that as its main unique selling point but then is paid by an anti-privacy company 'Google' which contradicts everything in Mozilla's mission statement.

Plus, Mozilla sort of did this to themselves anyway and turned Google into a direct competitor with Chrome.

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