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So in a few hours your post went all the way up the chain, the cost-benefit analysis changed, and the course was reversed? That's neat.
Or, of course, it was never an intentional evil plan that was "backed off" from... Perhaps it indeed was an artefact of how things evolved over time with an unfortunate side-effect, and we shouldn't be too quick to jump to the worst-faith interpretation of events.
Sorry, I'm just a bit tired of the reactionary pressure to be outraged about everything on social media. Even the non-VC-funded ones.
So in your opinion, how should the public have responded?
Either log a feature request in Mozilla Connect and otherwise not talk about it on social media, or if you talk about it on social media, start with a "hmm, I wonder why this" attitude, rather than a "Firefox is becoming spyware and no longer open source" one.
You seem to have a lot of trust in Mozilla. Do you realise that Firefox is developed and maintained by a for-profit corporation called Mozilla Corporation?
Yeah, quite a bit, especially compared to the rest of the industry. The reason is a) because that Corporation is owned by a non-profit, i.e. it has no shareholders that want to squeeze users for every penny, and b) there's a solid track record, and lots of passionate employees and contributors.
Add to that that the belief that the only thing that will come from Mozilla's demise, is even more power to Google, Microsoft and Apple, and yeah... I'm hesitant to immediately go for the worst-faith interpretations of every action. Unfortunately most of the Fediverse appears to think differently.
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I guess, but it's just so tiring to keep getting collectively outraged about every little thing. And sometimes it does have the opposite effect, i.e. it doesn't necessarily work.
(Although I don't think you could stir up an effective outrage campaign that would result in StartPage getting added, but I'll concede the larger point that Connect posts aren't automatically added to the TODO list.)