they're the best game in town, but they've also gone against long term user-base wishes again and again to either 1) try to create wider popularity with feature parity (didn't work) and 2) to capitalize in inappropriate ways that are against the ideals first set forward.
It doesn't take a lot of mental effort to realize that the userbase left doesn't want telemetry and third party partnerships; Mozilla knew this, they tried to get away with it and lost goodwill.
It's not the thing, it's the attempt to get away with it that irks me. No one except The Paid wanted pocket integration and Mr Robot promotions.
Oh you were definitely harmed by the company using their money to buy a semi-popular bookmarking alternative for their users, that someone probably thought their users would like to use, with zero requirement to ever use pocket. My firefox install hasn't even had the pocket icon in however long, I can't remember.
Meanwhile google is pushing an attempt to strangle the open internet to death, in the open, for all eyes to see.
But no, lets keep pretending that mozilla doing a poorly executed ad is comparable to THAT
It doesn't take a lot of mental effort to realize that the userbase left doesn't want telemetry and third party partnerships; Mozilla knew this, they tried to get away with it and lost goodwill.
It's not the thing, it's the attempt to get away with it that irks me. No one except The Paid wanted pocket integration and Mr Robot promotions.