[pessimizer]

>seems qualitatively different

>As for Firefox's dilemma, I'm not sure anyone cares how they feel or what they do.

>that's not entirely true

>That's a curious interpretation of the case.

>They're orthogonal.

Your response is a mixture of FUD and bald-ass assertions. Are you paid to anonymously defend Google? Serious question, because this reads like bad PR.

[tcelfer]

It's pretty outrageous you'd accuse me of this given that I'm responding to literal, textbook FUD with derision (the preferred mechanism for said things).

E.g., claiming that a google login is required is strictly false and has never been true. Claiming that Linux is not a realistic option when Linus Torvalds himself has a series of trivially searchable articles about why he wants to use a Chromebook Pixel as a dev machine.

Meanwhile, there is a publicly acknowledged and jointly-funded anti-Google ad campaign that's been running for several years. So we factually know that the counter-case (i.e., that there is a very high probability people are paid to write anti-google sentiments here) is actually the one receiving funding.

But again, why inject facts into marvellous diatribes.