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He would have at least avoided getting distracted by every single liberal cause that popped up along the way and kept his focus on technology. You can complain
by lolinder 2y ago
He would have at least avoided getting distracted by every single liberal cause that popped up along the way and kept his focus on technology. You can complain about Brave's crypto stuff, but at least it was trying to solve a real problem with internet monetization instead of being whatever Colorways was.
- mardifoufs 2y agoSure but that's just a symptom not a cause. Even without making Mozilla turn into a regular non profit that just happens to have a browser project (as opposed to a browser project non profit), the strategy they had just couldn't work. Every monetization attempt failed (even with stuff centered around "privacy", a niche where Firefox is well known). I've seen numbers that indicated that the Mozilla foundation donations are almost equal to what they profit from their commercial products.
- lolinder 2y ago> Every monetization attempt failed (even with stuff centered around "privacy", a niche where Firefox is well known) Again, though: they have yet to try the obvious, which is allowing people to donate to Firefox. I have zero interest in supporting all the random distractions that Mozilla engages in, but if they gave me a donation box for Firefox specifically I'd set up a recurring payment today. They can't in good faith claim to have tried every monetization method when they have never let users earmark funds for Firefox.