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I can properly educate myself on many, many things, especially over time. A major issue is correctly utilizing available time. In developed countries today, many "adults" would rather direct their time at very low-value activities, like having children and / or pet slaves, watching disgusting amounts of Netflix, wasting countless hours on Facebook ranting about personal issues or envying others, taking unnecessary and unproductive trips, etc.

While lots of readers will dislike this comment, are not ready to digest it, and will claim that I am wasting my time writing this comment, I think as a society we should prioritize creating competent humans who can appropriately use technology, whereas this move by Mozilla is just more of the same, prioritizing mindless consumers who have no idea how any of the things that their lives increasingly rely on function.

I think such consumers should be left to fend for themselves, as that is the only way a majority of people actually learn. This is especially true for Firefox, which has never been a "consumer" browser, and has always been a browser for people who wish to understand how it works and be able to modify it in a straightforward manner. If someone desires a browser that does whatever it wants without asking, Chrome is a perfectly fine option.




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