• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yup. Mozilla really needs to diversify and find new revenue sources.

    They’ve been trying, but it’s proving difficult to do while still refraining from hoovering up and selling everybody’s data. Nobody wants to pay.

    To make matters worse, anytime Mozilla tries to make any money, people accuse them of selling out or say they should just focus on Firefox. Some of these people even say that Firefox needs to get rid of Google funding immediately to get rid of Google’s influence.

    But that means the death of Firefox. I don’t really get what these people want.

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      9 months ago

      These people want to be rid of Google’s influence, which is why they chose Firefox over Chrome to begin with. But they don’t understand the position Mozilla is in…

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        9 months ago

        Well yeah, I want that too, but it can’t happen until Mozilla is making a decent amount themselves

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      9 months ago

      Some of these people even say that Firefox needs to get rid of Google funding immediately to get rid of Google’s influence.

      Which is an importnt factor, because Mozilla is currently being kept alive specifcally to lose.

      To be fair, those people (and lots others too) watch everyday some millionaires or billionaires just up and throwing money. Under that premise, it “should be as easy” as just convincing a random capitalist with narcissist complex to fund Mozilla. The problem with that is, people’s memory on the internet tends to not be retrospeculative, so they don’t notice if Mozilla did that they’d be in just about the same position eg.: Reddit was 5 years before 2023.