HN routinely dumps on chrome too. There is no browser HN likes.
Well chrome is obvious. Firefox always triggers the same complaints about Mozilla foundation. They’re valid, but the dog pile is always very striking. At the end of the day Firefox is a great browser and has enabled a bunch of great forks all outside of the chromium ecosystem. We can be critical and should be, but again, it’s very intense sometimes. Google is clearly worse.
"How dare you complain that I pissed on your carpet when the other guy took a dump on it."
If we’re going to use this kind of metaphor, I would say Firefox is just doing a mixed job of cleaning up the mess Google made on your carpet.
They doing both cleanup of Google's mess and adding their own mess. They are being criticized for the latter. Add to that that Mozilla, unlike Google, pretends to be a cleaning company when they want you to let them into your home.
> when they want you to let them into your home.
Are you trying to say that Mozilla/Firefox is engaging in the same data harvesting, usage, and dissemination that Google is?
Mozilla has frequently made questionable choices with its ad tie-ins and promotions. Mr. Robot ads, anyone? Unlike Chrome, Mozilla has also embedded full on data-collection schemes (Cliqz which tracked typing and browsing to test monetisation strategies).