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There should be a paid ad free membership for anyone who doesn’t like ads. Even if not many people take them up on this offer, it would be more fair since there
by chaostheory 5y ago
There should be a paid ad free membership for anyone who doesn’t like ads. Even if not many people take them up on this offer, it would be more fair since there would be a choice.
- axelthegerman 5y agoThis! How hard can it be to put a FF subscription payment somewhere inside the browser or on their website? Of course people can always fork it and remove it blabla. But we're talking about people who otherwise would donate and just want to do it more directly (as opposed to the whole Mozilla foundation)
- cinquemb 5y agoThose people should form a DAO, pool their funds in a governable smart contract for disbursing them, and reach out to people thru hn search who have their own forks of FF now and who make comments cough like me cough on hn about it over the years every time FF adds some more garbage in their browser. ;) At this point, threads like this help me add to my list of what garbage i need to compile out every year or so when i feel like syncing up hahaha.
- Semaphor 5y agoAlternatively, you could just choose to opt out when it asks you?
- axelthegerman 5y agoYes, but how can you then support FF financially to make sure it doesn't go away or development grinds to a halt?
- foobar33333 5y agoSubscribe to their other things like the VPN thats coming out.
- Tom4hawk 5y agoTo incentivize work on side products that I'm actually not interested in any way or form? This doesn't make any sense.
- fleddr 5y agoMozilla still has plenty of cash and revenue to fund Firefox development. But they did the opposite, they fired large parts of the development team. No donation will change that, it would require a strategic rollback from leadership.