Comment by moring

4 days ago

> HN, and firefox users, can never decide where the money should go or what the goals should be.

Without ever having dealt with this problem, it sounds like an embarrassingly solved problem, in the sense of: He who gives the money, decides where it goes.

The other half is to provide features that are actually detrimental if you don't want them as plug-ins / extensions / whatever. Pocket is an example for this. Firefox OS is not because it's not force-bundled with Firefox to begin with.

> They're switching to Chrome because they just don't care about being fucked up the ass, or worse, they secretly want to be.

The point where you stop trying to understand your users is the point where you start losing them.