Although Google making Chrome almost certainly had a part in it. For a while, you couldn’t use Google without a “try our new Chrome browser!” pop up in the corner, and there aren’t many who don’t use Google.
Firefox doesn’t have the same advertising reach, and neither do they have the reputation of Google, as a big company to help them in the eyes of laymen. Basically everyone’s heard of Google, but less so Mozilla. You’d may as well ask them to install Konqueror, or Netscape for all the good that it would do.
Exactly. Google had the existing userbase of – and free advertising to – every single person who visited google.com. All it took was a little banner saying “Get Chrome! It’s free and better!”
That, combined with having billions of dollars to throw at making Chrome successful, of course they became the #1 browser.
The Firefox team has never had the funding they really need to compete with Chrome. I see the AI and ad push to be a desperate attempt at securing enough funding to stay relevant. It’s really sad to see.
As long as Firefox lets me turn off any unwanted ad or AI integration, I will keep using them, but damn I hope they secure some funding and get their shit together before they lose the majority of their userbase.
Why is this metaphor different from others? From my point of view, it does just what you stated - adds emphasis. Nothing less, nothing more. To do that with a negative statement, you need a word with a negative meaning, so “rape” works well.
Thinking about it more, it’s a word that can be triggering for someone, because of the ugly meaning. But the ugliness of the meaning is also what makes it suitable for the metaphor. We can say the word, just like we can use words like “dying”, “torture” or religious stuff like “hell”, “heaven”, “godly” - it makes for effective metaphors, but I can see how someone could be offended.
Didn’t expect to see Lemmy defending privacy raping mega corp Google today…
You can disapprove of their privacy practices while acknowledging its innovations. There’s a reason Chrome got a stranglehold on the market.
Although Google making Chrome almost certainly had a part in it. For a while, you couldn’t use Google without a “try our new Chrome browser!” pop up in the corner, and there aren’t many who don’t use Google.
Firefox doesn’t have the same advertising reach, and neither do they have the reputation of Google, as a big company to help them in the eyes of laymen. Basically everyone’s heard of Google, but less so Mozilla. You’d may as well ask them to install Konqueror, or Netscape for all the good that it would do.
Exactly. Google had the existing userbase of – and free advertising to – every single person who visited google.com. All it took was a little banner saying “Get Chrome! It’s free and better!”
That, combined with having billions of dollars to throw at making Chrome successful, of course they became the #1 browser.
The Firefox team has never had the funding they really need to compete with Chrome. I see the AI and ad push to be a desperate attempt at securing enough funding to stay relevant. It’s really sad to see.
As long as Firefox lets me turn off any unwanted ad or AI integration, I will keep using them, but damn I hope they secure some funding and get their shit together before they lose the majority of their userbase.
When the innovation is “making shitloads of money violating people’s privacy” I don’t respect anything…
Hey can we save the word rape for actually important shit instead of privacy concerns, thanks.
Wooooords have meeeeeanings, pleeeeeease don’t misuse them for emphasis.
Using metaphors is perfectly legitimate.
A broad statement in response to a specific complaint. Not every metaphor is “perfectly legitimate”
Why is this metaphor different from others? From my point of view, it does just what you stated - adds emphasis. Nothing less, nothing more. To do that with a negative statement, you need a word with a negative meaning, so “rape” works well.
Thinking about it more, it’s a word that can be triggering for someone, because of the ugly meaning. But the ugliness of the meaning is also what makes it suitable for the metaphor. We can say the word, just like we can use words like “dying”, “torture” or religious stuff like “hell”, “heaven”, “godly” - it makes for effective metaphors, but I can see how someone could be offended.