Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: nprofile1q…4rs4v same here - Firefox user since 2005, and Netscape/Mozilla user ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq0p4hclaqjlup0fwjt5ke3mgxq6rtjth8u62yfv0s62xkxp04wjaqa4rs4v (nprofile…rs4v) same here - Firefox user since 2005, and Netscape/Mozilla user before - since the time when those were a single humongous suite with browser+mail client+feed reader.
I’m not even sure what Mozilla is trying to achieve with these actions TBH.
They have <4% of the browser market nowadays, and that slim share is overwhelmingly made of loyal privacy-aware users (some among them who have used their products for at least two decades).
It’s like they don’t mind to see us go if we are seen as “unprofitable”, or maybe they think that we have a high tolerance bar because we have nowhere to go.
But then I’m not sure who is going to make up for the lost market share.
They can’t even leverage the “use us because we are the private browser” sales pitch anymore. At the current state, with T&Cs that clearly state their right to do whatever they want with your data, they are no longer much different from Chrome, and probably even worse than other privacy-savvy Chromium-based browsers, or even of Safari.
So why would anyone use a browser that is only used by a niche, and that in many cases is even no longer tested by Web developers, if it just mistreats their data like any other browser?
I’m not even sure what Mozilla is trying to achieve with these actions TBH.
They have <4% of the browser market nowadays, and that slim share is overwhelmingly made of loyal privacy-aware users (some among them who have used their products for at least two decades).
It’s like they don’t mind to see us go if we are seen as “unprofitable”, or maybe they think that we have a high tolerance bar because we have nowhere to go.
But then I’m not sure who is going to make up for the lost market share.
They can’t even leverage the “use us because we are the private browser” sales pitch anymore. At the current state, with T&Cs that clearly state their right to do whatever they want with your data, they are no longer much different from Chrome, and probably even worse than other privacy-savvy Chromium-based browsers, or even of Safari.
So why would anyone use a browser that is only used by a niche, and that in many cases is even no longer tested by Web developers, if it just mistreats their data like any other browser?