“Haha, this is what it looks like to cater to the privacy/security crowd.” | Y Recombinator

		“Haha, this is what it looks like to cater to the privacy/security crowd.” (comment)
		recommended by 1 user \| 2020 \| renewiltord on: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on… \| browsers \| original thread \|
		renewiltord on Aug 11, 2020 \| on: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products \| view on HN Haha, this is what it looks like to cater to the privacy/security crowd. They have a picture of ideological purity. They don't actually use your product. Essentially if these were customers you'd want to fire them. People in this business always discover this stuff and then they're always like "Why do they hate me?". The answer is "they never wanted to love you. They want to watch you fall". Like DDG with their favicon service (which HN billed as some sort of nefarious tracker). Vanta bypassed all this by not playing to the Security Puffery crowd. Usually a quick way to do that is to require money because the Security/Privacy Puffery crowd doesn't have any. I'm a happy Firefox and Chrome user. Honestly, it's been working fine for me.

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Some comments that I will always remember -

On Catering to the privacy crowd- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123463

Users of peanut butter shouldn't have to think about whether it contains glass and razors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20634128

On Telegram seven years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949814

Indian Govt blocks a PHP project for terrorism and anti national content - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8820378

On Show HN:Dropbox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Did you win the putnam? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079