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> Making a browser as your primary product is just not profitable without monetizing your userbase in some form or fashion and it takes a shit ton of work to ke
by Pooge 5y ago
> Making a browser as your primary product is just not profitable without monetizing your userbase in some form or fashion and it takes a shit ton of work to keep it modern and secure.
Then why can I not purchase Mozilla merch? They shutdown or abandoned some of their most interesting services (MDN and Send, for example), but kept developing unneeded products : (1) VPN, which is just a layer over Mullvad that makes it worse and (2) Lockwise which is much better replaced with almost any alternative password manager (like KeePassXC and the browser add-on if you really need it).
Of course, they weren't wrong for at least trying, but then why not make it part of a pool of products that only premium users can access? For example, make it so that only Premium users can upload to Send. But no, all we get is just a sh*t VPN.
Mozilla doesn't want your money, and they're going to die for it.
- lolinder 5y agoThe VPN is garbage, but they did end up killing Lockwise. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-lockwise https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...
- gruez 5y ago>killing Lockwise. but the functionality is already built into the browser of the respective platforms?
- BoysenberryPi 5y agoHow is the VPN bad? If I recall, it's just Mullvad with Firefox branding.
- wford7 5y agoWhen I tried it, it flat out didn't work. Zero issues with Mullvad itself.
- BoysenberryPi 5y agoI used it for a few months and I did have a few intermittent issues but it worked for the most part
- foxfluff 5y agoI find it disappointing. For whatever reason, Mozilla VPN is not available in my country. And they don't support anonymous cash payments, like Mullvad does. It's more expensive than Mullvad, except at the 12 month plan. So what's the point? It's strictly inferior to Mullvad.