I just saw a post complaining about the Mozilla layoffs.

I wanted to point out that the vast majority of their income (over 85% in 2022) is from having Google as the default search engine - Ironically, the anti monopoly lawsuit against Google will end this.

Expect things to get worse.

Please don’t assume it was just a cruel choice.

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  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    2 years ago

    Aint it grand that a monopoly power got abused, got checked and our beloved FF is the victim of corpo parasites?

    Not even sure what funding model would work for something as critical as web engine but if we don’t figure it out, we will be sucking sundars dick going forward?

    Disgusting… Clearly some edge lord using and shilling it, ain’t enough

    • markstos@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Mozilla could have allowed people the option to subscribe for a modest fee in addition to giving it away for free, to diversify their income and be less dependent on Google, but they have not been trying that hard to develop other revenue streams.

        • jcg@halubilo.social
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          2 years ago

          Serious question, is there actually a FOSS project out there at the scale of something like Firefox that survives on only donations?

          • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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            2 years ago

            No because people choose diss cause it’s free. I mean they might say other things but then the vast majority do not donate to anything. People are cheap and that’s why we are where we are with all the ads.