It's completely outrage driven and feeds on fearmongering: "google bad, we good, give us money".
Having spoken to people who work at Mozilla they say the management is pretty toxic which makes me think they are being hypocrites with their message.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/how-to-delete-s...
Then they have an apparent advert for Disney?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/disney-and-pixars-turni...
Remember when they forced an a creepy advert for some random TV show into everyone's browsers?
It's all just a big unhinged.
> With our lives so online, our digital space can get messy with inactive and unnecessary accounts — and forgetting about them can pose a security risk.
This is a good message about web hygiene. It does feel a bit negative, though, you're right. I wish they'd focus on more balance between "big tech bad" and "try this cool open source alternative" because there are SO many cool projects out there to help you manage a music library, or personal streaming, etc.
Indeed and yet they don't have any problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from Google in exchange for letting Google be their default search engine.[1] Talk about cognitive dissonance.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...
basically the browser version of the "you critize society, yet you have a phone" meme.
Just this competitor though...?
Apple and Microsoft certainly don't exist purely by virtue of being kept around by Google.
Well, they did, but they let it stagnate.
Competitors was honestly a mistake on my part because you're right. Just this competitor as Firefox is the only independent competitor left with significant usershare at all.
Is there any search engine that approaches the quality of Google search results yet, or ideally, improves on them?