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It could have been viable with the user base that they had years ago, and it probably could be viable today, but Mozilla keeps throwing away all of their goodwill so that they can keep paying absurd salaries for shitty executives.
I absolutely agree that mozilla has squandered it's strong position from a decade ago.
... the series of "strategic" decisions that have been unsuccessful is embarrassing really.
That said, the "shitty executives" narrative is reddit edge lord stuff. Any large successful project is going to need well paid experienced executives. Of course you can judge them harshly in hindsight, but it's naive to assume they're making poorly informed decisions.
Like in your other comment suggesting there's no evidence that users love chat bots - you can absolutely guarantee that mozilla has conducted some market research indicating that it's a feature set that will attract more users.
Of course you can engage in supposition that such an assertion is incorrect, you can even predict that it will ultimately be another failure.
However, it's hubris to suggest that your own assessment of the market is more accurate than mozilla's - exactly the kind of hubris you're accusing mozilla of.
That's not true at all. There are plenty of large, successfull projects that don't have well paid experienced executives.
I can not guarantee that at all. They have a long history of doing things to make money, at the cost of users. I don't see why this has to be any different.
That's not what I'm accusing them of at all. What I'm accusing them of is having mis-aligned goals.
My goal would be to have useful, free software that gives agency and power to it's users.
Mozilla's goal is to give their executives a lot of money, by pretending to give a shit about their users, while openly selling them out.