Firefox

It's such a shame to see the difficulty Mozilla has to find a viable business model. I understand the reactions here and agree it's appalling, but at the same time, what can they do? AFAIK they rely on Google to pay for the search engine integration. That already sucks, and is a serious existential risk. So they need to diversify, which I think is what they're attempting to do here: let companies pay for being the default "lens", LLM, weather service, etc. From a business perspective this makes a lot of sense, to reduce the risk of depending on one customer.

It doesn't help that the c-level are just as greedy as you'd expect for any random company, raking in the millions, and arguably are doing a really bad job by being reactionary only, and then choosing the course of action that alienates the traditional user base. I don't really see any good way out of this other than radically changing their business model, e.g., going full non-profit, and move to a subscription model for revenue. But that's extremely risky as well. I would definitely pay a subscription for a Firefox where the primary focus is stability, safety and speed, as opposed to new features. But, there's also a limit to what I'd be willing to pay, $1 a month seems like a no brainer, but $5 would feel steep.

Long story short, they're in a tough spot, I feel for them.