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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, but I think it stems from the frustration we all feel that we're losing our privacy and now we're even at risk of losing the ability to choose our own services (with Google's proposed DRM changes and the possibility of gutting certain services in Manifest v3).

It's accurate that a very small slice of the pie are non-chromium users, and so I understand what you mean by "no one uses Firefox." I'm not quite sure what to do to change that.

Also, I can understand why people get upset about this and might seem unhinged. For me, worst-case scenario is I simply no longer use the internet unless I'm required to for work; but for many people, the internet hosts their only comfortable spaces. For example, I've seen an interactive map where LGBT+ people post from where they live, and there are people living in the absolute middle of nowhere in rabidly conservative towns of less than 500. I can understand that the prospect of losing our privacy and the only safe spaces they've got must feel devastating.