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

63 points pabs3 | 2 comments | 12 Mar 25 09:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | 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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reportgunner ◴[13 Mar 25 14:59 UTC] No.43354039[source]▶
If mozilla was a paid software on steam I would buy it for a one time payment up to $20. I would like to avoid giving my payment details to the browser directly as I see it as a risk of some malware misusing them to take my money.

After a few years (like 4) I would probably consider buying "Mozilla 2" for another one time payment up to $20 if the mozilla I bought becomes "end of life".

I would never buy "mozilla" from a microsoft store or android/apple appstore. I would not give a cent or continue using mozilla if ublock origin becomes not supported. Any kind of forced ads or restriction on adblocking will make me forget mozilla ever was a thing.

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1. oskarkk ◴[14 Mar 25 01:00 UTC] No.43358693[source]▶
Why Steam? I get that Microsoft/Google/Apple are also competing in web space, so it would be bad for Firefox to give fees to its competitors, but as far as I know Steam purchases also have fees like 30%. The features and marketing that Steam provides may be worth it for games, but for Firefox there is no upside to handling payments through Steam.
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2. reportgunner ◴[20 Mar 25 10:09 UTC] No.43421359[source]▶
I buy software on Steam, I don't buy it elsewhere and won't start buying it elsewhere just because of firefox.

> as far as I know Steam purchases also have fees like 30%

perhaps firefox could ditch google and get picked up by Valve? (in terms of funding/ownership)