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None of those strategies involve changing how the internet works. Website owners generally need to pay for their sites. Currently their payments are subsidized
by insanitybit 3y ago
None of those strategies involve changing how the internet works. Website owners generally need to pay for their sites. Currently their payments are subsidized (sometimes to oblivion) by advertising. Mozilla is doing nothing to change that, Brave is.
You're right that they perhaps don't want to be reliable on Google themselves, although they are and all other ventures have failed, but that's different from wanting a web that is not driven by advertising.
- dralley 3y ago> None of those strategies involve changing how the internet works. Website owners generally need to pay for their sites. Currently their payments are subsidized (sometimes to oblivion) by advertising. Mozilla is doing nothing to change that, Brave is. But that's exactly what it was... https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/02/25/exploring-alternative-funding-models-for-the-web/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/02/25/exploring... If you want to argue that they should have done it themselves rather than in partnership, or bought out Scroll, then sure, I agree. Especially given how it turned out after Twitter bought Scroll.
- insanitybit 3y agoAh thanks, I had never heard of Scroll. I guess it's nice that as of very recently they thought about this problem and then immediately failed.