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I get it, but do you really think there are enough people willing to pay a subscription to keep Mozilla's business alive? At this point the average consumer is

I get it, but do you really think there are enough people willing to pay a subscription to keep Mozilla's business alive? At this point the average consumer is used to free stuff, and a subscription model would ensure that Firefox is only used by a niche audience.

beebeepka 5y ago
Not OP but I do. At this point in time it's clear who uses Firefox and it's not the masses. It's the ones like you and me. Maybe our closest loved ones, too. It is doable. If there is an outrage, it would be manufactured.
CodeGlitch 5y ago
How about the payed version has a solid VPN thrown in? And I mean a VPN using Mozilla infrastructure... Not a 3rd party. There's a whole market around VPNs... So obviously enough money in that space.
- notriddle 5y ago
  > And I mean a VPN using Mozilla infrastructure... Not a 3rd party. There is no Mozilla infrastructure. All their servers run in AWS.
  - CodeGlitch 5y ago
    > There is no Mozilla infrastructure. All their servers run in AWS. Yes I know - that would be a good place to start though don't you think?
    - akoncius 5y ago
      have you seen AWS/azure/GCP data transfer fees? mozilla would go bankrupt overnight
    - notriddle 5y ago
      Would running their own servers actually be a good idea? Their workloads seem pretty well-served by AWS's offerings: services with extremely bursty traffic (like updates and TaskCluster CI) that can take advantage of the Elastic part of EC2, and mostly-static websites (like MDN and the Firefox installer) that can use a caching CDN like CloudFront.
jatone 5y ago
I'm literally paying for the VPN product they have because its the only subscription service they really offer. I never use it because the linux integration is terrible. lol
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  Relay and pocket are subscription as well though, no?