Not sure if I'm fully behind that comment, but it kind of raises an important point. If you want a freer web based on some kind of business, and not a non-profi

Not sure if I'm fully behind that comment, but it kind of raises an important point. If you want a freer web based on some kind of business, and not a non-profit/charity (and often a shaky one like Mozilla, financed mainly by Google)... this business has to function in some realistic way. (This is largely orthogonal to the open source/free - proprietary axis (which doesn't really exist in web browsers anymore). You should be able to sell/monetize free software.) I, for one, wouldn't complain if some financially solvent (self-sustaining, money-making), reasonably ethical and non-exploitative web browser existed (the same for search engine, OS etc.). In the economic system that we have it could be more efficient in marketing -> market share among privacy-unaware people and so on. So maybe we should strive to have a reasonable, analytic discussion what business practices are acceptable (rationally, if not emotionally at first glance) and which are not. This does not mean that we should just eat up whatever "privacy entrepreneurs" think of. But the tone of TFA feels a little less convincing because of the sprinkling of phrases like "their shitty program", like expecting you've already made up your mind.