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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)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Maybe if we support firefox we could reach the same amout of money than google

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Google was recently successfully sued for being anit-competitive by paying third parties to set Google as the default search engine.

That payoff by Google is like 90% of Mozilla's income, which is probably disappearing. So yeah, they're in full panic to fill that gap.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He seems to only have been involved during roughly the first year of Mozilla's existence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah exactly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you

Since FF is free - isn't that a given?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Literally no one but advertisers like ads. Anything that leads to more ads being shown is a negative to your community. Some might understand the need to make money, but that doesn't make anyone like ads.

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