Unfck the Internet

16 points by Plaastix 5 years ago | 8 comments

Terrible. Mozilla should focus on building Firefox, the one thing that gives them any relevance (and actually funds these idiotic initiatives), instead of wading into the quagmire that is politics and culture wars.

jstummbillig 5 years ago | |

Brilliant. Mozilla will never win the internet by focusing on building Firefox. The browser wars are over. Firefox is good but that's not enough. Banking on winning by outperforming Chrome in any significant way is delusional, because Google engineers are not idiots and Google will always have more resources to throw at this.

So fight them over where you fundamentally distinguish yourself. Brilliant.

macspoofing 5 years ago | | |

>Mozilla will never win the internet by focusing on building Firefox.

Then they will never win the internet.

>The browser wars are over. Firefox is good but that's not enough.

I reiterate: The only (ONLY) thing that gives Mozilla any relevance is Firefox. That's also their only real revenue stream. If Mozilla wants to give up on Firefox and wade into politics and culture wars, well ... that's a bold move that leads to nowhere. There are 10 million (left and left-leaning) non-profits that focus on this.

Mozilla, right now, is a company that hates their product and their users because that reflects the values of the executive team they hired.

ffpip 5 years ago |

Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651825

nurb 5 years ago |

No sure what they want to do if they think that play store and apple store buttons don't belong to the fcked internet...

dangoljames 5 years ago |

I can't say I'm a big fan of firefox/mozilla, but I'm a huge fan of their attitude.

cocktailpeanuts 5 years ago |

There are so many things wrong with this website.

Why the "fck" is a browser company playing politics?

Also, the Web is not about "indie websites". This only shows Mozilla is failing because they can't cope with the reality. If the reality is that large data silos like Facebook and Google have taken over the web, Mozilla should have been the one to provide a solution, a productive one. Instead they tell people to go use "indie sites". Not gonna happen. Mozilla should be providing proactive solutions, not playing activist.