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Firefox now shows ads as sponsored address bar suggestions

12 points by isaacfrond 5y ago

OskarS 5y ago
Mozilla has to make money somehow. From reading the article, this seems like a reasonable way to do it.
- encryptluks2 5y ago
  They are open source and many people contribute for free. It is not right for them to profit from their browser and their management has shown time and time again that they don't even care that much about reinvesting in Firefox.
- me_me_me 5y ago
  yes but why are they not taking donations to support firefox?
- ikerdanzel 5y ago
  They want to make money can start by stop pissing their loyal customer/user. Apple was saved predominantly by loyalist. Many others too. But Mozilla is doing weird, actively modifying their product to alienate their hardcore users. Just look at thier users base trajectory. I've used it since the day of Mosaic. Religiously flip over to it even when IE is the best. But alas, now I had to move away from it.
asdff 5y ago
We need to have a federal grant program to support development of open source software. The status quo of donations just isn't going to be sustainable decades from now when everything costs more money, and the answer shouldn't have to be injecting adware and more deals with some devil.
greenyoda 5y ago
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780285
endgame 5y ago
Just let us donate directly to Firefox. Come on.
asicsp 5y ago
Already discussed: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28779947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28779947 (102 comments, 1 day ago) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28783381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28783381 (676 comments, 1 day ago)
mch82 5y ago
The HN discussion on the article shared about Facebook (over here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797325) made me wonder… What if Mozilla sold super simple web hosting for personal and small business websites? Essentially, they’d add an edit button to the web (like Tim Burners Lee’s original web browser had on nEXT). Each customer gets personal web address. Add follow/subscribe features & discovery. Add privacy features. Seems like that might align well with the foundation mission & help support Firefox & the open web…

12 points by isaacfrond 5y ago

OskarS 5y ago

Mozilla has to make money somehow. From reading the article, this seems like a reasonable way to do it.

encryptluks2 5y ago
They are open source and many people contribute for free. It is not right for them to profit from their browser and their management has shown time and time again that they don't even care that much about reinvesting in Firefox.
me_me_me 5y ago
yes but why are they not taking donations to support firefox?
ikerdanzel 5y ago
They want to make money can start by stop pissing their loyal customer/user. Apple was saved predominantly by loyalist. Many others too. But Mozilla is doing weird, actively modifying their product to alienate their hardcore users. Just look at thier users base trajectory. I've used it since the day of Mosaic. Religiously flip over to it even when IE is the best. But alas, now I had to move away from it.

asdff 5y ago

We need to have a federal grant program to support development of open source software. The status quo of donations just isn't going to be sustainable decades from now when everything costs more money, and the answer shouldn't have to be injecting adware and more deals with some devil.

greenyoda 5y ago

Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780285

endgame 5y ago

Just let us donate directly to Firefox. Come on.

asicsp 5y ago

Already discussed: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28779947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28779947 (102 comments, 1 day ago) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28783381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28783381 (676 comments, 1 day ago)

mch82 5y ago

The HN discussion on the article shared about Facebook (over here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797325) made me wonder… What if Mozilla sold super simple web hosting for personal and small business websites? Essentially, they’d add an edit button to the web (like Tim Burners Lee’s original web browser had on nEXT). Each customer gets personal web address. Add follow/subscribe features & discovery. Add privacy features. Seems like that might align well with the foundation mission & help support Firefox & the open web…