No one is forcing Mozilla’s hand (afaik) and no one is actually thinking “if Firefox had a chatbot that might convince me to move over”. Youre right that it is not a “both sides” thing, its a “Mozilla thing”. Through and through.
replySome people are thinking "Firefox doesn't have a chatbot so I'll use chrome" though
replyAre any of those people not investors?
replyReally? How many people can that possibly be, and how many of those would a reasonably sane developer actually want?
replyIf your competition is attracting the worst kind of users, do you really want to get in their way?
Yes you want more users not less. This is business 101. Even business 000. Customers good.
replyBusiness 101 is to make sales! Users sometimes represent sales, but not always. That may be business 201 though.
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