• Gigasser@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I don’t think Lemmy users hate Firefox. I feel like alot of it is either people who legitimately have whatever needs they have, fulfilled by chrome more than firefox, or…it’s fucking astroturfers/fanboys.

    Edit Addendum: Also, if anything, Lemmy users fucking love Firefox.

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      7 days ago

      I don’t mean all Lemmy users. I mean a surprisingly large amount that non-stop hate on Mozilla and Firefox.

      I’ve even seen two users that hate Mozilla/Firefox so much that they wrote about it in their account bio, which I find crazy.

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        7 days ago

        Mozilla have made a series of unpopular choices, especially their enabling of telemetry for advertisers that does nothing to benefit users.

        It is no surprise some people are vocally unhappy.

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          7 days ago

          Private ads that make user tracking impossible absolutely benefits users, and the ad industry would be a lot less of a cancerous cesspit if it were the norm.

          It’s certainly been unpopular, but that’s more because most people on Lemmy don’t read past ragebait headlines and assume the worst.

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              6 days ago

              Lmao

              Putting aside for a moment how obviously untrue that is, Mozilla doesn’t even get the data.

              You’re just showing how clueless you are. You don’t even know how the system works.

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            7 days ago

            It’s just another source of telemetry for advertisers and won’t stop any of the existing methods of tracking.

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              6 days ago

              It’s a private alternative.

              I never said Mozilla was supreme dictator of the web and could force everyone to follow suit.

              “Bad things still exist so Mozilla shouldn’t develop good things” is not a rational take.

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                6 days ago

                The problem is that it isn’t an alternative, it is an additional and it does not benefit users in any way.