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I think Windows monopoly played a big part in IE dominance and Google search monopoly plays a big part in Chrome’s
I am not sure the average Chrome user is feeling performance issues to the point where they’d want to switch away.
It would be curious to see a campaign where Firefox offers a version with all telemetry and pocket and Google search removed and creates an Apple style “Data Linked to You” Privacy visualisation comparing Firefox and Chrome. The Apple trend seems to be gaining steam.
Problem is Mozilla gets most of their money from using Google as default search engine, so they can't just remove that
It won't take long until Firefox will have such a low market share that another open source browser project can take over their share of users. I am ready to switch to a better project which is not dependent on Google, that needs less funding and uses that money better.
Edit: This is me trying to see the good in the fact that Firefox market share is dying.
I think mozilla is really useful to google, obviously for monopoly reasons but here is a rather petty mundane example. Reading through a bunch of the TC39 minutes (W3C JS standards body), all of the major browsers including Moz have reps, and the Google ones tend to dominate the conversation and can tend to block proposals and generally be vocal about where the rubber meets the road. The google reps also seem to think they can speak for Mozilla saying things to the effect of I don’t think Moz will be on board with that, that won’t work for them. So they get more power behind the scenes through their patronage.
Incidentally, Microsoft uses Github votes the same way, except they outright own then instead of just controlling 98% of their funding.
In other words, Firefox might be around longer than looks reasonable from a distance.
Yeah but on the other hand: the people who like firefox like it for being not google, so they would switch to a different browser that's better in that regard, I believe
@[email protected] then keep using chrome spyware and win10 spyware is that good for you ?
wtf I am a FF user on linux...
why you said: "It won’t take long until Firefox will have such a low market share that another open source browser project can take over their share of users."
"This is me trying to see the good in the fact that Firefox market share is dying"
because Firefox market share is still declining and that sucks. But they don't seem to be able to turn it around, so maybe another project will.
Isn't the "elite" injecting € $ on chrome spyware ?
what are you talking about??
do you think gov and other corps influenced chrome usage on past years without a reason ? check this out https://lemmy.ml/post/57086
Who is the "elite" here?
Dont open your eyes keep them closed
lmao what are you, too chicken to tell me?
if you say so
evidently
The Goggle dependency really is a problem. If not for it, they could run campaigns like “Chrome sucks and here’s why” detailing all the dirty little tricks a browser can play. So maybe if they get cutoff some day we’ll see a browser street fight.
I would pay them on a regular basis if they'd remove Pocket, Google, etc. as soon as I log in with my Firefox account.