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Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market" (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (24 children)

I kept giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt and telling myself things weren't so bad.

I was wrong.

I'll continue using Firefox because it's the least bad option, but I can't advocate for it in good faith anymore, and I don't expect it to last long with this orientation.

So it goes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (17 children)

Ok sure, what do you want them to do instead then? 80% of their income is reliant on a tech giant's grace and is seemingly more and more likely to be cutoff soon. They need to survive somehow, and every monetised service they tried flopped thusfar.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How about not have a multi-million-dollar-costing CEO? Seems a bit rich (pun intended) for a supposed non-profit org.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not defending that but CEO pay only rounds to like 1% of their total expenditures. Developing a browser is expensive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

only 1%? That's about on par with a fortune 500 company, which supposedly Mozilla is not.

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