I'm just going to copy/paste my comment from the other day, because this thread is a perfect example. HN loves to simultaneously criticize Mozilla for 1) bein

I'm just going to copy/paste my comment from the other day, because this thread is a perfect example. HN loves to simultaneously criticize Mozilla for 1) being financially dependent on Google 2) spending resources on literally anything except Firefox 3) doing anything that smells like monetizing Firefox, no matter how innocuous Spoiler alert: They have essentially no hope of avoiding 1 without doing at least a little bit of 2 or 3. Unlike Google, Apple, and Microsoft, they don't have billions of dollars coming through the backdoor from other business units. The money can't just magically appear, so either they make it from Google, from Firefox, or from alternative services.