A significant portion of this blog post is complaining about Mozilla's repeated attempts to find new revenue streams that aren't Firefox. It's a sentiment I see a lot and I just don't get it.

They complain about Google paying to be the default search provider being a bad thing, and yet when Mozilla says "yeah, we hear ya, that's why we're trying to find stuff to diversify into so we can become less reliant on Google" people cry and shout "you should be sticking to Firefox, why aren't you focussing on Firefox??"

Like, which is it? Do you want Mozilla to diversify and have a more sustainable revenue stream, or do you want them to focus on Firefox and commit to reliance on Google? Because maintaining a project as big as Firefox without any funding simply isn't possible, and people aren't going back to paying for web browsers.

What these people want is not at all realistic. Devs want to be paid for their work. They can't have that if Mozilla follows idiots like Lunduke's "don't take money from Google, but also don't do anything that will make money. Only do Firefox."

I've yet to see a single one of these people offer any alternative that comes even remotely close to being feasible.

How do rambling blog articles full of terrible assumptions and analysis like this get posted? Is there an alternative technology community I could sub to that cares about quality content?

Firefox Marketshare nosedives

That can’t be true, literally everyone on the Fediverse uses Firefox.

This is the real problem with these Silicon Valley fads like crypto and AI - they cause idiot tech executives to disinvest in their worthwhile products in an attempt to get on the bandwagon.

I'd like to have the same kind of bonuses when I don't meet my KPIs

I’ll never understand how someone can get paid like that. If Mozilla was destroying the opposition, I’d get it though.

Okay, so, good news for the CEO, but terrible news for the Internet as a whole. Awesome.

Brian Lunduke is one of the sketchiest, chuddiest, bottom-feeding troglodytes in the technology "news" sphere. I doubt he wants Mozilla to do anything but crash and burn.

But he's also right, and the fact he's stuck his ugly pixelated avatar on top of publicly available Mozilla records does not make them any less correct.