Comment by MyFirstSass | Hacker News Reader

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We really need to sabotage Chrome somehow before the open internet will forever be destroyed.

I remember people being mad about walled gardens, social media monopolies and the death of actual personal websites but it's like everyone has just given up now.

It's actually incredible. Open source is an amazing concept and the talent out there should be more than enough to create alternatives, but instead Mozilla like so many other alternatives have been taken over a group of rich friends who distributes everyones money among themselves while the browser landscape rots.

Mitchell Baker has received over 22 million dollars in CEO pay since 2015 while absolutely neglecting Firefox.

Try to let that insane number sink in. 22 Millions should be enough to bootstrap a completely new browser, where the hell did it go? Barolo and mansions?

We are in a worsening battle with plutocrats scamming the masses and leeching on so much work done by all of us.

I see people complaining about Chrome and yet refuse to stop using. Stop complaining and start using another browser. If people would actually switch then these companies would actually have to react to user demands.

Same things applies to people complaining about Android, IOS, or anything other operating system. Use something else!!

> We really need to sabotage Chrome somehow before the open internet will forever be destroyed.

Since you mention this, I wouldn't be surprised if Google planted their people at Mozilla to make sure Firefox become less competitive

Just use Brave, if you don't like crypto, just completely ignore it. It isn't even in your face unless you want it to be. The browser is just like Chrome without the "phone to google". Plus it has a more performant version of Adblock builtin.

Internet explorer didn't die out because it was sabotaged. It lost because Chrome was better.

Make something better than Chrome. People will switch to it.

IE didn't simply die because of better competitors. They existed already way before Chrome.

But Google had the money and power to go head to head with MS.

Sounds like fun, but I can't afford Widevine, and nobody will use my browser if they can only get standard def on Netflix and Youtube.

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