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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 subsidize
by 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.