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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: 0.214s | source
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Permit ◴[13 Jul 25 11:35 UTC] No.44549537[source]▶
This thread is a perfect example of why the ad-driven model will win every time. Most people don’t actually want to pay for things (that’s just what gets parroted in anti-AdTech posts here).

It appears doubly true for Mozilla in this case because people don’t want to pay executive salaries/bonuses (yet happily consume other goods/services where this is already happening).

I don’t feel optimistic for the future of Firefox given it seems they’re likely to lose their primary source of funding in the coming months.

What alternatives are there? The temporary benevolence of a mega-Corp with a vested interest in online advertising? Crypto mining in the browser? Replacing affiliate links?

I haven’t seen a solution that seems practical here but it seems clear to me that if privacy-motivated, anti-BigTech HN commenters won’t pay for it, no one will.

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1. rcxdude ◴[13 Jul 25 12:20 UTC] No.44549863[source]▶
>It appears doubly true for Mozilla in this case because people don’t want to pay executive salaries/bonuses (yet happily consume other goods/services where this is already happening).

I think this is in larger part because people don't like the decisions they have been making. I think an executive team that had stayed focused on firefox or successfully brought in revenue to support it would have much less backlash on this point. People boycott other companies for similar reasons.