…In which Mozilla buys into the two-sided market craze and starts exploiting its users for ad money. And here I was hoping that the industry would start recogn

…In which Mozilla buys into the two-sided market craze and starts exploiting its users for ad money. And here I was hoping that the industry would start recognizing the poison of this business model, exemplified by FB. Instead, we see it spread. (And, notably, in case of Firefox is no overwhelming network effect or potential for user lock-in, unlike with Facebook et al.; so this seems obviously, possibly intentionally short-sighted.) Meanwhile, Firefox could have been such an opportunity to deliver the first actually paid product in the market, and to use direct revenue to make it superior and keep aligned with paying customers’ interests. Such a waste of reputation, which would’ve made this so much easier to pull off.