I'm being a little hyperbolic but I've really been struggling, and sort of stewing and mad all the time, about the genocide against Palestine, about the abandonment of caring about the ongoing pandemic and treating it as a past tense thing, about the ongoing climate Apocalypse and failure to mitigate it, about the fact that every time I'm driving or walking around town I see a new place that a homeless encampment has been destroyed and all the trees cut down to stop them from being able to come back, about all the gestapo shit going on at the border and in our cities, and I want to do something, but I don't know what to do about any of it, anything I can think of doing seems so pathetic in the face of the scale of any of these problems, and how can anyone see any of these things and not want to do something but yet half of what you hear day to day is people cheering on this cruelty and inhumanity and callous disregard, and I just want to scream and cry and shake everyone by the shoulders and say how can we let this go on like this!!!!
you're absolutely right, they're not the same, at least not yet.
I still use firefox, because they still allow adblockers and also partly ideological reasons; i don't want there to just be one rendering engine that exists. But i'm not under any illusion that mozilla is not evil.
If we take Cory Doctorow's framework, they're still in the "be good to your users to get them to use you" or early in the "slightly enshitify to please your business clients" phase, and aren't nearly as far down as chromium is yet.
Mozilla gets (got!!!) most of its money from google to use google as the default search engine, but they've seen the writing on the wall for a while and have tried to diversify their income stream from that.
Unfortunately that means they've kind of abandoned their main claim to fame, "we respect your privacy more than chrome does" because they need to make money and they've chosen to get in to the same business as google. Sort of rational for them but a terrible shame for all of us.
There's now basically two browsers and web rendering engines and they're both maintained by spyware companies.
Most of the time it doesn't do anything, and I only report people who are very blatantly over the line. The polite hate speech couched in "reasonable concerns and the spirit of open debate" is still rampant.
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in i think i genuinely have one of the world's worst brains by flabberghaster
yes!