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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by glenstein on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:48PM (#30338093)
Agreed, these are the macro-level events that really drove user adoption. The narrative (especially the Mr. Robot thing!) are totally out of proportion to their actual impact on user adoption and aren't the all-or-nothing tests of credibility or integrity that people are suggesting they are.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by grey_earthling on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:51AM (#30344174)
— but they are symptomatic. The Mozilla of 2004 wouldn't even think of doing user-hostile stuff like that, because they were trying to make a useful tool rather than a lifestyle brand.

Those things will have disillusioned people who used Firefox because their goals were aligned. I agree that Google being Google will have lost people who used Firefox simply because it was a good tool.

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