Mozilla fought battles against H264 and video DRM and lost both, giving up marketshare to Google and Apple in the bargain. Why keep wasting energy on a war they already lost? The market spoke and HN posters like you and me are the only people who care.
Because for every battle they lost, they won several others. The only reason we're not all using Internet Explorer is because Firefox lost some battles and won many others.
Yes, that’s right. The perfect way to operate is to have complete ideological purity. As a matter of fact, it is embarrassing that Firefox even runs on Windows (a closed source operating system that has integrated telemetry) and dare I say that perhaps Intel processors are unacceptable too?
Firefox should only run on completely open source and open firmware open architectures. Anything less is tantamount to endorsing crimes against mankind.
I am currently preparing a breadboard and expect to be completed with my port by 2042. I am going to have to sift for metals in my local stream in order to create resistors that were manufactured by pure provenance.
Currently uncertain about my own personal lineage, though. Have I had an unkind ancestor who did not believe in open source? Is it ethical for me to participate given such a taint? Questions of great import. I will consult a pure institutional review board before proceeding.
There's a large difference between running on top of a platform built by an ideologically-opposed organization, and actively aiding an ideologically-opposed organization with marketing agreements.
I'm able to watch programs on PBS.org and the BBC iPlayer without Encrypted Media Extensions. Also The Late Show with Steven Colbert on CBS.com and Seth Myers on NBC. There are probably lots of others, I don't watch very much television.
To me there is a world of difference between refusing to send me files based on where you think I am and requiring me to run your code on my computer to ensure that I don't do something that you don't like with the files you sent me.