Also, anybody can use the Gecko web rendering engine, yet project after project after project has picked the WebKit or Blink rendering engines.
And no, I haven't "shot myself in the foot" - when I replaced Firefox I found two great browsers: Brave and Vivaldi.
The better question is why you continue to support a compromised organization?
As for Mozilla being compromised - maybe, but it's still less compromised than advertisement companies, crypto companies, tax evaders, and their likes.
And Brave and Vivaldi are based on Chromium, so they help Google that Chromium sets the standards for the web.
You already shot yourself, just didn't recognize yet.
Why do you support a crooked company like Google?
Get back with me when the Mozilla Foundation has done a fraction of what Google has done in furthering our knowledge of computer science. Other companies making significant contributions to our knowledge of computer science are AT&T, IBM, and Microsoft. Would you prefer them to Google?
Also, the Firefox against the world meme is juvenile.
>Get back with me when the Mozilla Foundation has done a fraction of what Google has done in furthering our knowledge of computer science.
I would also consider which Big Tech company you're fighting. Last I looked, Google wasn't cited as the cause of a significant uptick in US teenagers committing suicide and being plagued with mental health issues. I could go on, but in the realm of Bad Actors in the land of Big Tech, Google is actually one of the least problematic entities.
We all lose if it's only Chrome.