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Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What's next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type "McDonald's" before I can actually navigate there?
You should see brave lol
Or, ya know, literally any other browser that's not a fork of Firefox.
And Brave has significantly lower costs, given they don't develop an own engine, but rather just put lipstick onto Chromium.
I bailed on brave when I learned more about the shenanigans that one dude pulled.
Why is this an issue ??
Meanwhile Let's discuss on how we can make Mozilla Great again (as in independent)
Either that or they go bankrupt. Design your own browser and give it out for free if you don't like it
A for profit company is not a charity
Their profit motive is capped by their only shareholder being a non-profit.
Again, not really. Mozilla wants to bring in as much money as they can. They are really bad at actually making useful products but that's a separate issue.
Whether it's for profit or charity. It can't accomplish its goals without financing.
Breaking news: Businesses need to make money, more at 11
Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What’s next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type “McDonald’s” before I can actually navigate there?
Don't give them new ideas, Sony might jump in and patent that too.
I thought you said "What's next, a few ads in the URL bar?" ...because Mozilla has put a few ads in the URL bar.
Don't give them any ideas
How do you get this? My home page just has some recent links
Depending on where you got Firefox from, default settings are different. Maybe your distro ships with these deactivated.
Yep. I get it from Librewolf. 😁
I think the best viable option for them is to either offer a subscription model. Or increase requests for donations.