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Perhaps Mozilla has figured out that you can't corner the market if you focus on nerds with privacy concerns;

these people (which are also the majority of posters in this thread) are a vanishingly thin slice of the cake. They're trying to corner a totally different market by using that kind of language and design, if that annoys the HN crowd, so be it; they're not the target for this kind of copy.

>>a_bono+(OP)
The problem is that they're not actually getting the other market either. If they wanted to sacrifice the hacker-types but got more non-hacker-types to use Firefox, I'd be annoyed (since, y'know, I'm the hacker-type), but I'd understand. What they've actually done is sacrifice the things that made them good (other than uBlock Origin, every one of my favorite extensions is dead or degraded) and alienated the hacker-types and still not gotten traction with wider audiences.

>>a_bono+(OP)
> you can't corner the market if you focus on nerds with privacy concerns

Mozilla seems to use a different strategy that is even worse.

Among nerds with privacy concerns you can at least plausibly get money/code contributions with significant worth.

>>a_bono+(OP)
>Perhaps Mozilla has figured out that you can't corner the market if you focus on nerds with privacy concerns;

True, but "cornering the market" is such an outlandish goal at this point, they shouldn't be holding themselves to that standard. It's enough to capture a respectable 3rd place, rather than the sub-3% afterthought they are now.

And they originally got the respectable showing in the early days by being the "one your geek friend recommends", not by pretending they can out-market the big players with unlimited budgets.

>>a_bono+(OP)
Mozilla cornering the market: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/StatCoun...