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> I'm sorry, Mozilla. It's been a good ride this past few decades, but I think it's time we parted, because with all due respect, I am now questioning the sanity of your staff. This is not how any normal person or company would describe its new software innovations. This is the language of lunacy. Frankly, you sound unhinged

I think he has missed the current year jargon which is a mix of corporate BS words and Buzzfeed diversity and inclusion crap. It usually means nothing other than:

"We are doing this because of profit or because we want to further censor discussion about something because the right view is X and that's what you're allowed to think and say.

Any dissent will be responded with a negative label on your person and, if possible, deplatforming, which is good, because we know what the one true way is"

They will phrase it as "in order to improve things for consumers, everyone" while literally screwing over a myriad of those people.

Firefox is still a great browser but Mozilla has long been a company that we can barely trust, in the way that it actively is telling us that we need to subscribe to its very US centric partisan politics and view of the world, which has shifted from actual fairness and openness for all vi virtue of being a customizable browser.




I wonder if Mozilla knows that their politicking will affect some percent of developers who will no longer open Firefox when writing web applications.

This will lead to subtle issues over time, making Firefox usage shrink even faster.


Lol. Maybe, although the reason this sort of stuff is fashionable corp aesthetic is because it is, in fact, popular. For me, personally, it's like having escaped the Matrix to a refugee camp, and the morale officer there is annoying. Who cares?! The alternative is fucking vat slavery!!! I would assume a non-negligible percentage of people who use Firefox are techies who feel the same; otherwise, why in the world would they not be on Chrome?




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