Mozilla Newspeak extension falls flat as only ~1,200 users in the world need a safe space from harsh language.

Last year, Mozilla created a new extension called Bitch to Boss, which did the very important job of taking some unkind words about women and changing them to appear as “boss” for only the people who installed that extension. George Carlin mocked the self-esteem movement. (“Most people with low self-esteem, have earned it.”) It has created people so fragile that they need to shelter themselves from words.

Mozilla has invested itself in releasing 6 updates to the extension since it released 15 months ago, and according to the page, it has 1,225 users in the entire world. Which is where Firefox itself might be if Boss Mitchell Baker has her way with it for a few more years.

Of course web browsers can change the way a web page works. Sometimes this is useful, like when they provide a blocking API to stop ads and other web junk from getting through, wasting your resources and time, and tracking you, or when Bypass Paywalls makes it possible to read “news” articles, when your corporate billionaire overlords think you ought to be paying Jeff Bezos to give you your opinion for you.

What’s not valuable (the results speak for themselves) is when the browser vendor pulls a stunt like this to appeal to SJWs and then nobody uses it.