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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Here's a take by a Mozilla employee :

  • Mozilla has been ad funded since 2005
  • Browser development is not sustainable by just donations
  • Transparency is most important

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Mozilla has been ad funded since 2005

It was funded through a deal with an ad company. It did not become an ad company itself until much more recently. jwz had a succinct and memorable response to the the absurd idea that really it's been ad-funded all along and that this makes things okay:

You are just another of those so-predictable people saying, "The animal shelter has always had a kitten-meat deli, why are you surprised?"

Yes, Mozilla started making absolutely horrific funding and management decisions many years ago. Today, they have taken this subtext and turned it into the actual text.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

That's certainly a quote that will stick with me.

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