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Comment by frazbin | Hacker News Reader

Mozilla is still a hell of a lot better aligned with my interests than Apple or Google. And do we not value browser diversity anymore? I understand the irrational fury directed at non profits when they're less than perfect but it's kinda embarrassingly self defeating when applied to software. The environment we are coding in in today was built by companies like Mozilla.

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It’s exactly because I do care, that I’m so frustrated. Mozilla was our best chance to have a truly independent browser. And they blew it. And they’re still blowing it, destroying their remaining good-will with one tin-eared, alienating move after another.

This is not “less than perfect”. This is gross incompetence. Firefox has been in steep decline for over a decade, yet the same people who are responsible for this monumental failure are still in charge, still running it (into the ground).

If they do not get some more capable people in charge, Firefox will continue its decline into irrelevancy, and we’ll all be worse off, when Google, Apple and Microsoft are the only browser vendors left standing.

Mozilla is funded by Google. They need a foil to boil this frog very slowly for antitrust reasons.

I don't need Mozilla, I have been compiling garbage out of it for nearly 6+ years while adding stuff of my own. I would rather, at this point, they dissolve. Which will create a vacuum and allow for space for a fork to evolve without all the garbage coming in constantly from upstream and compete for resources for (for those who have no interest in pursuing alternatives with a chromium dependency and do not care that the latest and greatest™ google features aren't in servo).

Why do you consider the criticism of these advertising features irrational?

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