i like how you make this sound like users are the ones at fault for not liking shitty things, how about mozilla tries earning money without making the world worse?
Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 weeks agowhile they have made a lot of dumb decisions, they are also in an almost impossible situation. every time they try to diversify their income they get hammered hard by the community.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
overload@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
The internet runs on either ads, data harvesting, donations or the goodwill of solo developers. Firefox cannot generate revenue with ads or data and currently gets money from donations via Google and other companies. Are you expecting goodwill?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Personally, I’m fine with Google giving money to Firefox to be the default search. Keeps my browser in business and I just change the search. I don’t see a problem here.
overload@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Absolutely. If you’re privacy focussed enough to use Firefox then you can change a default browser in minutes if not seconds.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I am. Why not make it a nonprofit?
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I think you underestimate the costs of development.
barsoap@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Firefox is a way for them to make money for their charitable projects. Always has been.
They’ve been opening secondary streams of income – also via Firefox, like pocket and stuff, but it’s unclear whether that would even allow them to keep developing Firefox. It certainly would mean that Mozilla doesn’t have any money left over to give to others which is their main purpose of existing.
OrekiWoof@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
how
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Maybe they wouldn’t have needed to diversify into such predatory markets if their execs weren’t pocketing all the money.