This is wonderful news and I'm all for more diversity and user choice in the world of browsers, but this text...
> preparing to become the only major web browser which does not treat the user like the product being sold.
...is either ignorant or a deliberate slam on Mozilla. Whatever else you might say about Firefox, it has never tried to "sell" me to anyone. The fact of the matter is that Mozilla has done the impossible for decades and gets no end of grief for it.
(I expect we'll get a zillion complaints about search engine placement & Pocket recommendations because that always happens on this site)
To me, it seems neither ignorant or a deliberate slam on Mozilla.
Clearly, they are referring to paid search engine placement. But that doesn't just apply to Mozilla, it also applies to Apple/Safari.
And given that both Mozilla and Apple are being payed by Google somewhat proportionally to how many users they have, clearly users are indeed being treated like a product being sold.
> preparing to become the only major web browser which does not treat the user like the product being sold.
...is either ignorant or a deliberate slam on Mozilla. Whatever else you might say about Firefox, it has never tried to "sell" me to anyone. The fact of the matter is that Mozilla has done the impossible for decades and gets no end of grief for it.
(I expect we'll get a zillion complaints about search engine placement & Pocket recommendations because that always happens on this site)