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It's very unlikely that this will happen. Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. When you have demonstrated you are willi

It's very unlikely that this will happen. Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. When you have demonstrated you are willing to pay money for a service, you are likely to also spent money on other goods. This only makes you more attractive as an advertising target. Most likely we will see premium features like: - premium color themes - more cloud storage for settings and extensions - analytics on your browsing data (after you hand the data over to them) (??) - more customer support (???)

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
To me what you're saying is Mozilla is no longer about FLOSS, they're now just a company whose only purpose is to make money selling their users downstream for as much as they can get? That may be true but it's extremely sad.
- diegoperini 7y ago
  Where is the proof that it is true?
  - pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    I'm reacting the the GP, they said (paraphrasing) that Mozilla won't create an advertising and tracking free paid version because if you'll pay to buy such a version then Mozilla will be to eager to exploit your worth as an advertising target.
inapis 7y ago
>Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. I have only seen major US news outlets do this - namely NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ etc. I have subs to different publications - Ars, Ken, Nautilus - and they definitely are ad-free and a lot of others also claim to be ad-free for subscribers.
magduf 7y ago
>Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. All I ever hear about in regards to news websites is that they're dying out because no one wants to pay for subscriptions, and the arms race is getting worse as many of them have strengthened their paywalls so that non-paying viewers can't see the articles (while others develop workarounds for the paywalls). Magazines, like newspapers, also seem to be dying out, though not as fast as the print newspapers. Maybe companies should rethink this business model.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago

To me what you're saying is Mozilla is no longer about FLOSS, they're now just a company whose only purpose is to make money selling their users downstream for as much as they can get? That may be true but it's extremely sad.

diegoperini 7y ago
Where is the proof that it is true?
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  I'm reacting the the GP, they said (paraphrasing) that Mozilla won't create an advertising and tracking free paid version because if you'll pay to buy such a version then Mozilla will be to eager to exploit your worth as an advertising target.

inapis 7y ago

>Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. I have only seen major US news outlets do this - namely NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ etc. I have subs to different publications - Ars, Ken, Nautilus - and they definitely are ad-free and a lot of others also claim to be ad-free for subscribers.

magduf 7y ago

>Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. All I ever hear about in regards to news websites is that they're dying out because no one wants to pay for subscriptions, and the arms race is getting worse as many of them have strengthened their paywalls so that non-paying viewers can't see the articles (while others develop workarounds for the paywalls). Magazines, like newspapers, also seem to be dying out, though not as fast as the print newspapers. Maybe companies should rethink this business model.