Block Fingerprinting with Firefox

Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by clairity on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:33PM (#20056995)

i wonder why mozilla hasn't tried a premium pricing model? the premium version of firefox could have a yearly subscription of, say, $24. it would have all privacy features turned on, the best privacy addons installed, and all analytics/telemetry turned off, by default.

i would even pay a whole $3/month for that! =D

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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by ACow_Adonis on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:00PM (#20057108)

The brand risk of having firefox associated with the free version would be horrendous.

To have a premium product, you need to have a non-premium product, and given that most users would use the non-premium product, firefox would quickly become associated with a browser that has the actually desirable features turned off...

Which would probably be even worse than their low market take up at the moment (and I am typing this on firefox).

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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by oops on Friday May 31, 2019 @09:25AM (#20060613)

I agree. Maybe they could differentiate the two versions with a badge or some adornment in the UI which appears grayed out in the “free” edition. I guess it’s the same as asking for donations but maybe not as blatant. Also not sure why they stopped selling merch. I would buy some right now.

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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by pbhjpbhj on Friday May 31, 2019 @03:29AM (#20058872)

Because if they suggest anything to remove the whales then their paymasters will veto it?

The people who would pay for a subscription are surely some of the most valuable for advertising to, and FF in its current form exists because of advertising.

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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by tinus_hn on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:28PM (#20076765)

They don’t want that but you are free to do so yourself, it’s free software.

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