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submitted 6 months ago by soulfirethewolf to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I really can't stand their skewed priorities in contrast to the state of Firefox.

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[-] pkill@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They really just can't get a break. When they take money from Google they get attacked. When they try to create other revenue streams (pocket, vpn, etc.) they get attacked. I don't think you want the browser to be a paid for subscription product and the donations aren't enough to reliably cover browser development.

Maintaining and keeping secure a large standards compliant browser is decidedly expensive. And most of the expenses are not one off they are ongoing.

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

factually incorrect, they're just paid to have them as the default search engine and they need that money to maintain the browser

[-] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

also for "see we're not a monopoly, firefox exists!"

which is no fault of firefox

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 6 months ago

they get paid billions of dollars and all you have to do is switch default search engines win win if you really hate it DONATE TO MOZILLA

[-] jsh@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago

I don't see you helping keep the lights on.

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