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Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoi 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?
OrekiWoof@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
overload@sopuli.xyz 3 days 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 days 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 days ago
Absolutely. If you’re privacy focussed enough to use Firefox then you can change a default browser in minutes if not seconds.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Which makes you wonder what’s the actual motive here
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I am. Why not make it a nonprofit?
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 days ago
I think you underestimate the costs of development.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I believe the Firefox development organization could be a lot leaner, and not all of the work has to be directly salaried. There are plenty of huge open source projects that are progressing fine without being run by a single for-profit company. E.g. the Apache ecosystem, the Linux foundation projects, FreeBSD, etc.
barsoap@lemm.ee 3 days 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.