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Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives (lunduke.locals.com)
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[–] possiblylinux127 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Mozilla the company needs to be rethought

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's been the case for like 10 years now.

The focus should be on securing independent funding. This means paid services or increased independent donations. Some ideas:

  • Mozilla VPN - essentially a wrapper over Mullvad, but the landing page doesn't give a good reason to choose it over Mullvad (e.g. container tabs); choosing a server per site should be front and center
  • email - I know they tried at some point, but they really should integrate with something like ProtonMail (e.g. FF-specific TLD with service through ProtonMail)
  • password manager - they have their own solution, but it's FF-only; perhaps have a cobranded Bitwarden that integrates with other Mozilla products cleanly
  • ad blocker - Mozilla should work with major websites to drop ads and let the user choose between privacy-respecting ads (served by Mozilla based on local browsing history) or anonymous payment (Mozilla would host something like GNU Taler, which you'd load through a method of your choosing)

The last I think could be truly disruptive.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly Mozilla could be a hugely profitable company. There is clearly a market for privacy and freedom tech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, and they have both a for profit and nonprofit part of the org, so it's totally doable. They just need competent leadership who legitimately care about being independent of search money.