I just saw a post complaining about the Mozilla layoffs.
I wanted to point out that the vast majority of their income (over 85% in 2022) is from having Google as the default search engine - Ironically, the anti monopoly lawsuit against Google will end this.
Expect things to get worse.
Please don’t assume it was just a cruel choice.
Mozilla could have allowed people the option to subscribe for a modest fee in addition to giving it away for free, to diversify their income and be less dependent on Google, but they have not been trying that hard to develop other revenue streams.
have you bought their vpn service? ;)
That’s something! But it doesn’t raise any money from people with other VPN providers or who don’t want to buy a VPN service.
corpo parasites at the top were paid off to gut it from within… signal is going the same route imho
What’s signal doing now?
To be clear this is tin foil… But the vibe is the same.
Mainly, they get decent budget and staff but they are not pushing the product forward. They don’t care about mass reach or usability, they cover this with claiming that their core audience is a journalist living under an oppressive regime when their user is tech nerd in the west.
Either way there better solutions for that kind. It just doesn’t feel like they competing here.
Kinda like Firefox stop pushing the edge.
Signal does a decent job of encouraging people to make one-time or ongoing donations to the service. I’ve supported them multiple times because they gave me a prompt to do so.
I don’t recall Firefox ever asking for a donation or subscription.