Brendan Eich: belief

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…The definition of evil shifts depends on how large the incentives are. Going public also, it just puts a feature of duty to your shareholders on you that is hard to resist. This is kind of the animal, the blind, voracious beast of capitalism. When I was thinking about Brave, I realized not only had Mozilla become captured by its search partner, it was probably going to die because it couldn't compete, not just on Chrome intrinsic qualities, but on distribution, which really matters at scale. You have to pay for it, right? Microsoft had woken up and was doing IE and finally did Edge. This was before they switched Edge to be based on Chromium. They were certainly still distributing on Windows. They were kind of tying it and I would say it's gotten worse. Windows 10 and 11 have gotten even more aggressive though they backed up on one particular thing recently, where it's almost like back to the antitrust case. They're saying, hey, you're not using Edge, we've noticed. Would you like to use Edge, or oops, we reset your default browser to Edge. That happens too. This is a problem for Google. Google has to pay to distribute chrome. Mozilla doesn't have the resources to do this. Our growth with Firefox when I was there was completely organic, I think. It probably was mostly organic after I left. They might have done a little growth hacking and they never got big on mobile. I'd love to get your explanation. Again, I don't ask this because I don't have thoughts myself, but I want to hear from you. Why is it bad to be tracked?…

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