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Pocket is a nice idea, but probably a poor substitute for Search Engine money. If it worked, Mozilla would publish real numbers. (The way Mozilla works nowaday
by 78h321sadfh7z 8y ago
Pocket is a nice idea, but probably a poor substitute for Search Engine money.
If it worked, Mozilla would publish real numbers. (The way Mozilla works nowadays, they would probably publish a blog post with an overly excited tone describing how Pocket saves the internet, destroys fake news and even averts climate change)
Just like they don't publish real data anymore for Firefox absolute user numbers, which have gone downhill in recent years.
The 75% number is meaningless without revenue numbers and an explanation what this 75% even pertains to. There shuold be around 100 Million Quantum users who have Pocket in their new-tab section.
Finding a long-term strategy will be a challenge for Mozilla. Since the browser is losing more and more users, if they don't invent themselves completely new there will be no way to keep the revenue stable.
- dessant 8y agoIt indeed seems like Mozilla does not publish user stats for Firefox, though detailed statistics for AMO are still available. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/statistics/addons_in_use/?last=365 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/statistics/addons_in_use/?l...
- 78h321sadfh7z 8y agoWhen you look at the major Addons, usage is consistently going down. Mozilla pulled the plug for the user raw data after this blog post: https://andreasgal.com/2017/07/19/firefox-marketshare-revisited/ https://andreasgal.com/2017/07/19/firefox-marketshare-revisi...