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Let me pay for Firefox

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802 points csmantle | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.512s | source
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nuker ◴[13 Jul 25 10:13 UTC] No.44549072[source]▶
The risk with paid Forefox will be privacy loss, because the app will need to verify somehow the paid status. So there will be some unique, personal licence on the device and Mozilla can identify users using payment info.

The licence will be likely checked via remote API on app start.

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1. omnimus ◴[13 Jul 25 10:31 UTC] No.44549183[source]▶
Sell license keys... no need to check online.

Anyway the boat has sailed here as every browser connects to dozens of places automatically and if you go to any bigger site you are basically cyber attacked so advertising companies can fingerprint and track you.