Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla's terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down. How to make Firefox private: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls Web browser tier list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r6jFE8gic Why I still use Firefox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SJFED5xK0 Credit to @BryanLunduke for his video talking about the finances of Mozilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KDcxSZDang 🌐 My website: https://ericmurphy.xyz 💸 Support the Channel: https://ericmurphy.xyz/donate 🎥 Watch my videos on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@ericnmurphy 💻 My GitHub: https://github.com/ericmurphyxyz Sources: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/ https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy https://getpocket.com/en/privacy/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-google-search-deal/ https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/b-itch-to-boss/ https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-quarter-staff-250-people-new-revenue-focus https://twitter.com/lizardlucas42/status/1293232090985705478 https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496512/why-nintendos-satoru-iwata-refuses-to-lay-off-staff https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584 https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/09/26/eucodeondisinfo/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/the-dsa-is-not-a-justification-for-censorship/ 0:00 The fall of Firefox 1:34 Privacy promises 3:45 Why use Firefox, anyway? 4:42 Deals with the devil 7:08 Big business 8:24 Making the world a better place 9:54 Mozilla doesn't care about you 11:29 Firefox (lack of) Focus 12:02 Mismanaged funds 13:12 What happened to Firefox?

Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla’s terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down.

  • xNIBx@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    yes I don’t believe the earth is flat or that lizard people control the world - but look back in history and think about all the times the “official” narrative was wrong. WMDs come to mind.

    The official narrative for the WMD in Iraq was that WMD didnt exist, according to the UN nuclear inspectors. It was the US that wanted to create an alternative narrative that WMD are a thing, with satellite photos and yellowcake stories. And this is why the vast majority of europeans were against the invasion of Iraq. I think only in the US, the majority of the public supported the invasion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_prelude_to_the_Iraq_War

    Most governments opposed it. And even in countries where the government supported it, the public didnt. If your closest allies are telling you “this is bad, dont do it”, then maybe it is bad.

    • virtualbriefcase@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Exactly, but in America for a while all of the outlets and a vast majority of the politicians were saying the same thing (that there were WMDs) for a while - or at least that was what I’ve pieced together since I was too young to to understand politics at the time. My point was more so that it was wrong, but in the event something like that was the only narrative allowed on American social media platforms and search engines society could be worse off by it.