Mozilla petition
The future of Mozilla depends on its ability to remain true to its founding principles. Join us in urging Mozilla to focus on enhancing Firefox and adopting sustainable, privacy-friendly practices for a better internet.
Mozilla: It’s Time to Ditch Google
OK, but then they rely on donations or info selling for ads. Is that really better? I sure won't foot the bill for the ceo's multi million salary.
Yeah... it's frustrating to see these kinds of things. Like.. yes.. stop doing the bad thing... but if you're going to start a whole petition... maybe offer some feasible alternatives and solutions.
Looking over their financials, they'd have to cut l over half their workforce and relocate to a cheaper area (to cut salaries by more than half) to get close to being financially stable without search income.
Bing is still a thing. Bing offered Apple a boatload of money to be the default search engine in Safari. I’m sure Mozilla could make a deal with Microsoft.
I also wonder if they could just prompt the user to select a search engine from a randomized list, and then get paid from whichever service the user picks?
Some browsers sell placement spaces on the default start page to make money as well. It would be another revenue stream for Mozilla and it’s easily updatable by the user directory don’t want any of these default sites.
how is ditching Google for Microsoft better?
What's the financial plan there? Or do you just want them to drop 80% of their budget or whatever it is and work for free?
Back when they were "Netscape" you could buy a box off a shelf with the current version for a flat fee. I'd be okay with a paid version with zero ad inserts, and zero leaky telemetry. I'd even be okay if it was $X for the base product and $Y for $Z years of security updates.
As long as they've got the Point of Sale going for the purchase, if they also want to include addons that I could select to donate to in the same transaction where they pass through those funds to the addon developer, I'd be good with that too.
Considering about 80% of their budget is paying their CEO there is one way to continue to work with less funding
No it isn't. Not even close.
This ain't it Chief
The future of Mozilla doesn't exist. Period. And about fucking time.
Why is about time? What are your main criticisms towards Mozilla?
At this point they are at best useless, at worst a scam. They're even defending Google against DOJ. Fucking clowns.
Mozilla is also ded.
Signed ✅