But has decided not to go ahead (for now).
He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
But has decided not to go ahead (for now).
He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
Literally the last and only reason to use this sluggish memory hog of browser
You wanna bring ads into my house? Your product will be at the curb.
And AI
When a CEO is adamant about going out of business
This reeks of "haha wouldnt it be funny.." vibes right before someone does the thing they were "joking" about.
Firefox has been compromised. Fork it now.
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most of them barely maintained.
However it appears waterfox is no longer owned by a spyware/adware company
Firefox is completely forked
LibreWolf got your back.
Librewolf is woke.
i hear floorp's good.
Mozilla is controlled opposition.
The only people for whom this won't be a deal breaker are the mad lads who have blocked all ads at a DNS level.
I have done that and I still use ad blockers because DNS blocking didn't catch everything. I'd ditch Firefox if they did this, easy, next question.
You make it sound difficult but it's as easy as using an ad-blocking DNS server or using something like a Pi-hole on your LAN. Other options also exist.
Pi-hole for the win.
What the actual fuck
“I do think we need revenue diversification away from Google,” he says, “but I don’t necessarily believe we need revenue diversification away from the browser.” It seems he thinks a combination of subscription revenue, advertising, and maybe a few search and AI placement deals can get that done. He’s also bullish that things like built-in VPN and a privacy service called Monitor can get more people to pay for their browser. He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
Just clipping the last 2 sentences makes it seem worse than when in the full paragraph. It reads more like a, "look how much we aren't earning" rather than a "This is how much we will make when we turn."
Also this is a snippit from a conversation so there may be even more context to this, possibly worse or possibly better.
Good luck, I just changed browser...
I really tried to like Firefox.
"It feels off mission." How visionary.
How about "this is diametrically opposed to what we stand for!"