Comment by dogleash
1 year ago
Even with their recent privacy policy changes, Mozilla's approach is structurally different from Google's core business model.
>This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't that the entire brand identity of Firefox is Privacy.
>It's like discovering there's ham in a vegetarian sandwich. When you ask them they look puzzled and say their focus group was clear it tastes a lot better that way, besides it's just a little bit and the bread is vegetarian and there's way more meat in a Big Mac.
If only people cared as much about privacy as vegetarians do about not eating meat...
> If only people cared as much about privacy as vegetarians do about not eating meat...
In Germany, a lot of people do (in particular in hacker and IT-affine circles), and I do claim privacy discussions there often do become as heated as discussions with vegans about meat.
This is the reason why in Germany Firefox has a significant market share (according to
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/462158/browsers-most-use...
13.65%).