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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ok sure, what do you want them to do instead then? 80% of their income is reliant on a tech giant's grace and is seemingly more and more likely to be cutoff soon. They need to survive somehow, and every monetised service they tried flopped thusfar.

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How about not have a multi-million-dollar-costing CEO? Seems a bit rich (pun intended) for a supposed non-profit org.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not defending that but CEO pay only rounds to like 1% of their total expenditures. Developing a browser is expensive.

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 7 points 1 month ago

only 1%? That's about on par with a fortune 500 company, which supposedly Mozilla is not.

Ideas:

  • directly ask for donations, and actually use those donations to fund browser development
  • build an add-on to pay sites instead of seeing ads - Mozilla could take a cut here
  • push harder on existing, optional add-ons that generate revenue, like their VPN

But the article here reads like, "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. Have ads..."