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Are you saying that, because people don't want to buy browsers, the end result is we only get the ones that can be financed by companies that sell other things
by rkomorn 1y ago
Are you saying that, because people don't want to buy browsers, the end result is we only get the ones that can be financed by companies that sell other things (which in this day and age is ads, with only a few exceptions)?
I'd agree. Although I'd also add: people don't want to sell software anymore, they want to sell subscriptions, and I personally do not have much desire to pay $10/month for a browser (and then get pitched more services to buy on top, no doubt).
- swiftcoder 1y agoThe subscription thing is key, although maybe a generational thing. I would happily pay a flat $60-100 for each major version upgrade I choose to adopt, but I won't just give them a direct monthly tap into my bank account.
- godelski 1y agoSo do you donate that amount every major release?
- swiftcoder 1y agoIt's purely a theoretical, since nobody has offered me a choice of that model - either I'm a source of ad revenue whether I want to be or not (Chrome, FireFox, Safari), or I'm in a captive ecosystem where I'm already paying a premium (Safari, Chrome for android)
- rkomorn 1y agoI think asking people if they're one of a small of handful people donating into the void to a is a straw man.
- lelanthran 1y agoLast I checked, you can't donate to fund firefox development. You can donate to Mozilla, who then go on to spend their money on things other than firefox development. Or development in general.
- pjmlp 1y agoBecause unfortunelly subscriptions is the only way to make people pay that would otherwise pirate, it is the modern version of using hardware keys.