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Corporations will dismiss all of that as asshole Luddites, and do it anyway. You're not Google's customer. The advertisers are.

The only way to stop Google from treating the Web as their own OS is to take that power away from them, by switching to other browser engines.

>>pornel+(OP)
And we have this crappy paradox that Mozilla is held to an impossibly high standard. People want to burn them to the ground for daring to use Google Analytics, or the Pocket acquisition, and keep using a 100% Google browser, with preferential integration with all of Google's services/protocols/APIs.

>>pornel+H
I think that's a false dichotomy. It's possible to criticize Mozilla (ideally in good faith) for both the way in which they develop Firefox and their focus/mission in general, while at the same time using Firefox, since to me it looks like the best alternative we've got.

Not every Mozilla critic is a Chrome user; I'd even expect that the most vocal critics are Firefox fans and users.

>>lxgr+K9
In theory, yes, but that’s what every thread about switching to Firefox gets: Lots of flames about Mozilla. But when the only sensible alternative is staying with Google, why would these people make these arguments as replies to suggestions to switch to Firefox? It is only reasonable to conclude that it’s not Firefox fans making these arguments, in those threads.