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Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?

63 points pabs3 | 4 comments | 12 Mar 25 09:53 UTC | HN request time: 1.036s | source

How much would you and or your company be willing to fund Mozilla should it need to become independent of Google?
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kayo_20211030 ◴[12 Mar 25 13:48 UTC] No.43343226[source]▶
No, I don't think so at the moment. I send small amounts to Wikipedia, and similar projects, but Mozilla? I genuinely don't know what they do. There's a browser. It's decent enough, I suppose; but not compelling enough to use as an alternative to something else. OTOH, they do have wicked good documentation. That, I might fund. But, the browser and the other stuff, probably not.
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fsflover ◴[12 Mar 25 15:48 UTC] No.43344492[source]▶
> but not compelling enough to use as an alternative to something else

It's definitely compelling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322922

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1. kayo_20211030 ◴[12 Mar 25 17:50 UTC] No.43345850[source]▶
I'm a fan of uBlock, but the argument's just not compelling enough for me. I may be dull, but Ads on the internet are like taxes to me; they'll just have to be paid.

Sites host ads, nobody else does it. They do it for pretty straight-forward economic reasons. If a site's too annoying, why visit it? Eventually, I hope it all settles down to a decent equilibrium.

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2. fsflover ◴[12 Mar 25 18:00 UTC] No.43345956[source]▶
You would be right if you were talking about ordinary ads, like those DuckDuckGo is using. I'm not blocking that. Most ads today track users and illegally collect huge amounts of information in order to psychologically manipulate you into buying what you don't need.
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3. kayo_20211030 ◴[12 Mar 25 19:46 UTC] No.43346956[source]▶
True. I'm still being presented ads for shoes I bought three months ago. How many pairs can I possibly need? But, seriously, I see that as part of the tax too. Annoying, useless, and tedious. Have I grown callouses?
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4. fsflover ◴[12 Mar 25 22:24 UTC] No.43348298{3}[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33071211

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682709