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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 105 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (29 children)

I like Mozilla, I respect their mission and their good nature. I can’t help but feel the billions they receive from Google make it too easy for them to be, at best, unfocused and, at worst, lazy. They offer a lot of random services like this. I fear this play is just chasing another possible mediocre revenue generator for them. Like pocket, like Mozilla vpn and private relay, etc.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (20 children)

Maintaining a web browser is an intensely cost and time prohibitive endeavor, especially nowadays. The FOSS community can maintain a lot of things but the sheer scale of Firefox, the need for expertise, the necessary labor, it just can't be done by volunteers and donations, at least not without using Chromium. They have to get a cash infusion from somewhere.

I don't like it anymore than you do but ultimately the issue isn't Mozilla, it's the state of the technology market. Silicon Valley is no place for a non-profit organization right now, no matter how much we need it.

What we need is regulations and anti-trust, but even that may not truly save us.

They need money. That's it. That's the long and short of it.

[–] valen@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] Zana@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I get paid next week and will definitely be donating, thank you for the link!

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