Putting out fire with more fire works very well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn

What’s the alternative? If Chrome takes over on iOS too then what? Let Google unilaterally decide the future of the web?

Personal information extraction for ad targeting purposes will be on by default and eventually be made very hard to turn off.

New features that’s good for the web but Google doesn’t like because it threatens their ad business or they just don’t like it because of “not invented here” will die in the crib - see JPEGXL; Apple is trying to push for it but if Chrome displaces Safari that hope will be completely extinguished.

Now we at least have a choice …

> can't put out fire with more fire

But can you put out a fire with Firefox?

The idiom is literally “fight fire with fire”

Also, “the enemy of my enemy, is my friend”

Maxim 29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

That doesn't mean what they're doing isn't to your advantage.

> “the enemy of my enemy, is my friend”

That one basically never leads to anything good.

Well, none of these are “words to live by” so you’re not wrong.

> two wrongs don't make a right

but three rights make a left!