It's a crazy crowded space. Any entry into this field looks like a "me too" product driven by FOMO instead of being motivated by (a) serving customer needs, (b) serving social needs, or (c) making money. (All of which are fine with me) It will get 0.5% market share -- and I'm supposed to get excited?

If you lived in New York City you might think there are Duane Reades coast-to-coast but there are not. If you are based in the Bay Area you see billboards that are very different from anywhere else. I'd say the viewpoint is a lot like this famous artwork

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...

but maybe instead of the rest of the US being 1/5 of the vertical space it is 1/25 of the vertical space. Problem is most customers do not live in the bay area and most web browser users do not live in the bay area and most web developers do not live in the bay area. Based in the Bay Area they can hop in their cars and drive the longest 40 miles in America to get to Google and Facebook's headquarters so Mozilla is talking to those people all the time and not talking to the rest of us.

We don't get costly signalling to show they care about the rest of us, we don't even get cheap talk.

They probably think René Girard is deep because they are surrounded by people who think René Girard is deep. If Mozilla wants to be relevant and not just an also-ran it needs to "think different" like the other 99.9% -- it's not that hard if you change your location.

Really the EU needs to apologize for those damned cookie popups and invest in a privacy-first browser. Whether that is "fully fund Firefox" or "fully a fund a Firefox fork" or pick up another browser engine or start a new one.

I see the warning lights flashing: a few years back web sites that didn't work with Firefox were few and far between, this weekend I bought tickets for a comic book convention and they took my money but didn't give me a ticket because the site didn't work with Firefox. I use Firefox as my daily driver so all the projects that I work on work with Firefox; the rest of my team doesn't give a damn and if you lose me another site will become Chrome-only.

> Really the EU needs to apologize for those damned cookie popups and invest in a privacy-first browser.

I love them. They are not mandatory, only shady websites that rather sell users information than providing a barely functional homepage. Yes the popups suck, but I'm very happy that this exposes the behavior and priorities of the industry.

> the EU needs to apologize for those damned cookie popups

The EU didn’t make these mandatory. They’re a form of malicious compliance, executed so that the common perception is that these laws are there to get in the way of regular folks.

Most websites shouldn’t require cookie pop-up. They do because they’re spying on you in some way and need to notify you of that.

> Really the EU needs to apologize for those damned cookie popups and invest in a privacy-first browser.

You clearly misunderstand when they are required and how they are legally required to work, the key points (as I take them) that are often misunderstood are:

* They are not about cookies, but any persistent identifier

* If a identifier is needed for your core functionality (ads/tracking is not a core functionality) and not misused for other purposes you do not need consent

* It is required to be as easy to decline as it is to consent

* Not consenting is not allowed to degrade or gate the content

* Even if you consent to tracking/cookies you should be allowed to withdraw that consent

Do you not agree with these points?

>"Girard"

>"99.9%"

I despise "centrist-moderation" just like any other guy but maybe "entrepreneurial dignity" is not 100% of something but 65\pm1% homeownership

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-europes-homeownershi...