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by vGPU 922 days ago
According to Brave’s stats, they get ~63M MAU. Firefox is now sitting under 200M. That’s a loss of >50M users in two years.

Looks like Eich might have been Mozilla’s hidden force keeping the project on the rails.

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Firefox's market share loss started years before Eich left.
So it's my fault when Firefox lost share to Chrome, and a mysterious coincidence, or at best nothing to my credit, that Brave grew from 0 to ~60M from 2015 when I cofounded it -- makes sense!

Your obsession with me, evident in the need to well-ackshually almost every HN post that might be considered positive about my work, is frankly creepy. I've already been erased from Mozilla's site, a la Stalin-era pre-photoshop photo touchups. No worries -- let it go, the past is in the past.

The man, the myth, the legend!

I would just like to thank you for continuing to stand up for what you believe in and fighting the good fight. Blessings be upon you :)

Such wild extrapolations from a simply stated fact. They suggested you kept Firefox on the rails. Pointing out it was off the rails didn't imply you derailed it.

> Your obsession with me, evident in the need to well-ackshually almost every HN post that might be considered positive about my work, is frankly creepy.

This is nonsense. My comments about Brave have been infrequent and neutral or slightly positive mostly. Recently I did list common criticisms to correct a claim about why people disliked Brave. My criticisms of Mozilla and Firefox have been non technical decisions made after you left mostly if not only. And even pointing out when Firefox's decline began wasn't all about you. Any future for Firefox depends on understanding its decline.

> I've already been erased from Mozilla's site, a la Stalin-era pre-photoshop photo touchups.

Were you removed from any photos in this way? Or was it histrionic exaggeration?

Mozilla's site hosts posts by you, posts by others mentioning you, historical documents by you, and credits for your work.

> No worries -- let it go, the past is in the past.

I hope you believe this some day. For your sake.

He didn’t say about Brave, he said about him. Considering the number of replies you’ve made bickering, I’d say he’s correct.
He said about his work. And it would be objectively false either way. I'd say your hero worship affected your comprehension.