Lesser of two evils: Google or Mozilla?

Many companies are learning the hard way of what is meant by "Go Woke, Go Broke". There's quite a few layers hidden underneath those four basic words. Regardless if we're talking about a person, family, company, or nation, leaving reality behind to chase fantasies will always eventually end in some form of disaster.

A common example can be the gender studies graduate. What is a gender studies major to do when you graduate and realize you have no business value? You went down the woke major, and ended up broke, and typically not just financially.

But the most common use is regarding companies - when Microsoft starts caring about some fantasy, like transgender ideology, more than selling computers, then Microsoft will no longer focus on selling computers, and overtime, will be selling less and less computers to the point they no longer make money.

Perhaps the prime example of this is Mozilla. Mozilla took over the internet with Firefox before Chrome was even an idea, getting over 30% of market share in the world where MS IE was king and required. They were a foundation focused on improving the internet and their browser helped drive that forward. However, when Chrome hit the world, they began losing the browser war, and in response, they needed a bold new strategy to come back and win.

Typically, if this was a movie, this is where we'd think that Mozilla would lick their wounds, get up, and start preparing for the next battle, trying to make a comeback as the underdog as we anticipate the climatic fight. People love those movies - that's why the original Star Wars was such a huge hit.

However, instead of Luke Skywalker mustering his courage and destroying the Death Star, we instead got Mozilla firing their CEO over gay marriage opinions in 2014. They drank the woke leftist cool-aid almost before it was cool - even before the Supreme Court drank it a year later. They already lost half of their market share to Google Chrome in just a couple years after massive adoption of Chrome across many devices. Instead of figuring out why they were losing, they decided to blame it on not being woke enough. So, they doubled down on the partisan and woke path, obviously losing anyone with any real talent or sense of reality, and becoming nothing more than a shadow of their history. Firefox, which represented over 30% of browser share, now only has about 3% of the market:

With their 3% market share, they decided it was best to claim to be for open discussion and internet while turning around and basically calling for deplatforming (or worse) half the country.

Why does any of this matter?

I'm tired of Google. I think many people would happily jump ship to a competitor if the competitor actually tried competing. Sure, you have Kiwi, Brave, Degoogled Chromium, Edge, but under the hood, they are all running whatever Google wants them to run. There's only two browsers that aren't controlled by Google:  Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox.

Google dislikes me, but they don't want to completely deplatform me - they want me to use their platform so they make more money from ads. Sure, they'll ban certain people, both big and small, but overall, they still need to make their money, and they know it. That doesn't stop them from being too political with their policies and their enforcement, which has already led to significant cracks in some of their services. Let's have a very short list of the two major crackdowns:

• Banning COVID "misinformation" because the CDC/WHO are always right and never lie...
• Banning election integrity "misinformation" because no one would ever cheat during an election, even if you were trying to beat what the leftists communists believe is literally Hitler.

However, Google does hold back slightly from trying to deplatform half the country. They're dumbfounded by their predicament, and therefore are consistently irrational and inconsistent with their policies and actions. On top of that, most of it is automated, so good luck if the automation decides to hate you.

However, on the flip side, Mozilla hates me. They hate that I'm Christian & Conservative. They want me "more than deplatformed" for simply noticing significant irregularities that were ignored by the Democratic-Media Industrial Complex and not believing Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election – on the sole basis that they said that he won. They also want me essentially banned from society for my continued belief that marriage is between a man and a woman or that I know the answer to What Is A Woman?

So what browser do I use? Do I use Chrome (or derivatives) or Firefox? Who is the lesser of these two very clear participants in and proponents of evil?

I've been pondering this question for months. I've been de-Microsofting myself, de-Googling myself, and trying to ensure I have full ownership of my data in the event that one of these woke companies suddenly decide to ban me. I can't choose either, because both are cooperating greatly in the current culture war for evil, but I need an internet browser, so I need to choose, realistically, one of them.

Always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest

You have two dogs. One dog is a old, sad, and has a strong disdain for humans. You know he'll bite you if he could, but he doesn't have any teeth or energy left. The second dog is strong, energetic, undisciplined, and stubborn that doesn't have any limits. Since the dog was never disciplined, the dog might decide to turn on you when you do something the dog may not like. Since the dog is strong and energetic, you know that bite would hurt.

Which dog is better to be trapped with? That is what made my mind on this predicament. If I was to be bit by Mozilla, it wouldn't hurt at all. They're too weak for it to matter. I'll just switch to another competitor of some sort if I needed to. But what if Google bites? Well, they're a big enough dog they might just try to swallow me whole. If I wasn't already pretty well de-Googled, I could lose my email & therefore access to anything that uses that email for verification. My phone access, being an Android, could be severely limited and might require me to switch phone numbers. Luckily, I try to limit my Google usages, but it'd still be a large pain.

So, that's why I've decided to use Mozilla Firefox - because while I know they'd destroy me if given the chance, they can't. Google, however, has become such a monopoly that it's a real concern, and the wide control Google has over the internet is of great concern to those actually worried about deplatforming.

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