graham_paul

6 anni fadiscuss

because the youth is the future. Investing in young users is investing long-term. Young users is potential future money, old users is immediate but short lived money stream. I didn't mean to say that it didn't matter but FB is obviously looking at the future

graham_paul

6 anni fadiscuss

It doesn't matter that you are getting more users if those users are old and that's basically what is happening to Facebook. FB these days is just a place where content gets recycled, original content, viral memes and cultural trends happen elsewhere (TT, IG, etc). Just try to list the number of public figures (that young people care about) that use FB as its main channel? Now compare that against TT, IG, etc.

FB managed to buy IG and WhatsApp but they won't always be able to buy their competitor or copy them

graham_paul

6 anni fadiscuss

> if it wasn't hard to do, it wasn't worth doing

that's a very narrow minded way of looking at the world. Kind words, hugs are very much worth it

graham_paul

6 anni fadiscuss

1. No, it is not. Chromium relies on binaries as well as calling Google's web services whose code you cannot read. That is why ungoogled-chromium is a thing

2. Not sure what your point is here. Mozilla needs to make money to maintain and improve its advocacy work

3. See point 1. You don't own or control Google's web services nor its domains therefore you have no full control of the build process if Google decides to shut down its services. If you want to see what community owned means, I suggest you look at the Python community. No hidden binaries or mysterious calls to corporate web services

4. Google's goal is to make money, Mozilla is to keep an open web. Obviously, Google has potential business conflicts while Mozilla doesn't, Mozilla wins even if it dies as long as the web is kept open, Google wins if it makes money full stop

You simply cannot compare them. Just look at Chrome in a fully Google-owned environment (Android), it does not even have extensions.

graham_paul

6 anni fadiscuss

Imagine being banned by ALL of them. You are cut out from a large chunk of the Internet. the only thing saving you from being unable to access common internet services are those that dared to defy that monopoly (DDG, Mozilla and all those nameless folks working nights and weekends on projects you don't even know that exist until you become an internet pariah)

graham_paul

6 anni fadiscuss

As a Firefox fan, I really hope it happens again and again. It's good for the web as a whole when Chrome fails and Firefox doesn't.

As a technical person, you should be advocating the use of (real, community owned) open source browsers not just whatever the majority uses.

I feel that Google's monopoly on the browser market for desktops will be more and more endangered as they (for legitimate business reasons) refuse to provide the services and processes that a modern browser user/developer deserves.

graham_paul

6 anni fadiscuss

Maybe just maybe, you will consider Firefox.

1. Same or better performance

2. Open source for real not just (pretending to be) Open Source

3. More transparent process

4. No business conflicts

Support Firefox if you care about the open web

comments