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Mozilla lays off 70

(techcrunch.com)
929 points ameshkov | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.31s | source
1. aazaa ◴[] No.22059141[source]
> All of this is part of the organization’s plans to become less reliant on income from search partnerships and to create more revenue channels. In 2018, the latest year for which Mozilla has published its financial records, about 91 percent of its royalty revenues came from search contracts.

This raises the question of what products Mozilla plans to make that will generate revenue. The article doesn't address this.

I found these after a quick search, all of which appear to depend on Firefox to some extent:

- VPN/password manager called Lockvise

- Pocket recommendations and sponsored content

- Firefox Monitor, "a free service which allows people to check whether their email address has been a part of a recent security breach"

- "DNS over HTTPS" and "Encrypted Server Name Indication", "... both of which we’ve partnered with Cloudflare to test in the U.S. market."

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2017/