https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1dofyj1/how_did_mozilla_firefox_go_from_being_the_best/
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Seriously, every post I read that’s upvoted is smack talking Mozilla in every way possible and it just so happens to take place exactly when Google quietly announces Manifest V3. Mozilla is not our enemy, Google is. Don’t let all these bot upvoted comments and posts let you forget that. Has Mozilla made some questionable moves lately? Yeah… the biggest being the purchase of Anonym. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/
We’ll just have to wait and see how that turns out. But I found it amusing when I saw this post and it got so many upvotes immediately after Mozilla announced the purchase. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1dkujuh/mozilla_anonym_is_a_datahoovering_monster/
Then Mozilla allegedly fired someone because he has cancer. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/mozilla-is-trying-to-push-me-out-because-i-have-cancer-cpo-says-in-bombshell-lawsuit/ar-BB1oOjOZ
Then I was reading Mozilla android browser is suddenly the worst and least secure android browser.
It’s never ending… Honestly I think I am just going to take some time away from Reddit because it’s becoming such a corporate shill and bot upvoted cesspool. I’m sure this will get heavily down-voted but I just wanted to give my two cents. Mozilla will always be my preferred choice for privacy and security and unless I see some actual changes within the browsers no one will ever convince me otherwise.
Only people saying that are bots and people who dont know what the fuck is going on, which is most people. Out of my office of 60 people, I am the only one who even knows this is happening. Even my manager, who is technically supposed to hold all IT knowledge for the company, still uses chrome as his only and doesn’t even know what manifest anything is. Mans is driving vanilla chrome just taking ads and trackers to the face.
Redditors gladly fall for drama and clickbait. Mozilla being a non-profit at its core means they’re supposed to be the good guys, so if they do anything that could be interpreted badly, or even if they don’t, journalists will publish stories about it and Redditors will gladly lap that shit up.
If Google tries to rape them, that’s yet another Tuesday, boring.The “opinion” of redditors is as thoughtful and researched as a billy club to the backside of the head. I should know, I was a redditor for 10 years
It’s social media. Social media is all about bubbles, groupthink, driving engagement. It happens on Facebook, it happens on Reddit.
It happens here, too. There are certain views that are accepted as what every right-thinking person holds, and certain other views that are dumped on with great glee about how wrong they are. But which specific views they are varies from bubble to bubble.
Well, I say you’re wrong!
Reactionary bullshit conceivably being promoted by the advertisement industry instead of rising organically (though it really only matters when asking whether its a few loud people, or a bunch of AI-generated noise).
I think they could be right. For gods sake Firefox bought an ad company. And their latest and greatest features are “me too” AI garbage and “vertical tabs”. Whoop de do — browsers did vertical tabs in the 90s and it flopped.
Google and Edge are worse, but that doesn’t make what’s happening to Firefox any better.
What ever happened to mean and lean browser code that concentrated on rendering a website as quickly and accurately as possible?
browsers did vertical tabs in the 90s and it flopped
There are extensions for that. Which are worse than they used to be because they didn’t provide APIs enabling to do that properly, about 10 fucking years after they dropped the old APIs. There are a lot of other feature requests from back then open, often even filed years before they went through with dropping the old APIs. The best way of doing custom keyboard shortcuts in Firefox is still injecting Javascript into each page, with all the shortcomings this has. Usability of Firefox is way worse nowadays than what it was 10 years ago - and I do understand (and agree) with the decision to dump the legacy APIs, but you can’t just break functionality lots of people use, and not provide APIs in over a decade to fix that.
I’m trying other browsers now and then, but every single one is a dumpster fire. At least the Firefox dumpster fire is a bit less out of control - but that’s the most positive thing I can say about it nowadays.
All you gotta do is think about who still uses Reddit and you’ll have your answer. It’s the SM for the average joe, and the average joe knows jack about technology.
“All content I dislike must’ve been upvoted by bots.”
No, real life is often just like that. It helps to remember that people tend to focus on the bad, and reddit culture isn’t known for its tendency towards sensible takes.
Try to keep the good stuff in mind, I quite enjoyed reading through the recent AMA in r/firefox, for example.
Mozilla is a big entity. Regardless of your views, there’ll always be both good and bad brewing in there. I think a disproportionately loud group of people need to learn to accept that, and reflect a bit more before commenting.
And yes, getting some distance from internet bubbles can help. Reddit is not the only culprit.
It was gradual rather than sudden, and partly a matter of perception catching up with reality.
