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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by bcoates on Friday December 04, 2015 @11:18PM (#10680832)
Once they sold out on DRM my attitude to the whole project was "why bother". If I want a browser made by people who cheerfully assist my enemies I may as well use one that's not mediocre in every other aspect.
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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by dao- on Saturday December 05, 2015 @06:37AM (#10681602)
Sold out how? They tried but at some point it was a lost cause with every other relevant browser and the content industry pushing for DRM. Within a few years, users would have been unable to access services like Netflix in Firefox and switched to other browsers. How would that have helped save the web?

With double the market share, maybe Mozilla could have pushed back longer and harder, but unfortunately that's not the reality we live in anymore.

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