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I've seen a few people say they won't be using Mozilla products any longer, which is up to them of course. I doubt it is any significant number of people.

The only thing I've seen that 'crossed the line' so to speak was the okcpuid thing urging users to stop using Firefox. I didn't see exactly what the message was. It sounded more like a marketing stunt to get some media attention. I think if it had been other people/companies targeted then people on HN would have been applauding their disruptive and entrepreneurial marketing department.



I don't see that that crosses any line, as such. It used to be very common for websites to tell people not to use Internet Explorer, sometimes on a purely technical basis, but often on a "Microsoft is evil" basis. This seems similar to the latter.


Flaming a company is a vastly different from death threats and hate mobs against a person.


I was responding to a comment about a website showing a message to Firefox users; the website made no death threats.




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