RabbiPires

"Hate" is a loaded term that depends on your interpretation, and can mean a lot of things, most of them political. I won't list them here because it's off-topic on HN.

Mozilla right now should focus their efforts on being profitable (or at least sustainable!) without relying on Google, Baidu and Yandex. Ideological or political pursuits should come later.

Now that's bloody genius. Trick owners/founders of large foundations/corporations into checking out your blockchain, drive hype, ???, profit.

The problem is listing it as a primary principle when there are more pressing concerns. I don't care about people's politics, so long as they don't push it to the forefront. Unfortunately this is what seems to happen a lot these days. "Fighting hate" should not be a primary concern for Mozilla right now.

All this talk about openness and freedom, and Mozilla's builds still ship with the proprietary Pocket extension by default. I really hope they don't have to rely on the revenue from Pocket at some point.

Not only that, but it also connects to Google's SafeBrowsing servers. Is that required by their search engine contract with Google? Shouldn't be turned on by default.

I remember working on a Visual Basic "OS" back in 2005 with something similar in mind. I don't remember going further than implementing a basic desktop and a calculator. Fun times.

>Many of those who commented in the linked reddit thread actually praise Microsoft Edge, explaining that they already installed the new browser, and it’s just as good as Chrome or Firefox.

Completely organic too, I presume.

I can see "user-friendly" distributions like Ubuntu becoming early-adopters of homed.

This comment is really on point. systemd has been creating solutions for non-issues for a while. Perhaps to justify the developers' paychecks.

User editable files should _not_ be in JSON. TOML, YAML or heck, even INI (which is already in use by systemd anyway!) is better.