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Re:Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher by BrendanEich on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:04PM (#20844023)
You've been downvoted, but your words deserve a reply. Profit motive does not go away in a "non-profit" (Mozilla Corp is the for-profit subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation; top salary last seen [2017] was $2.3M+). It takes innumeracy or worse to miss that Mozilla depends for its profits (to pay such salaries and bonuses) mainly on the Google search deal.

In my opinion, this conflict of interest between users and Mozilla's search revenue share held back tracking protection in Firefox over the years.

Meanwhile Brave has a transparent rate card, where we pay the user 70% of the gross revenue for user-private ads, and 15% for publisher ads (not yet deployed; the publisher makes 70% and we take same as the user). So we get <= what users get, and will fail if our users don't like the private/anonymous ad model enough to opt in at sufficient scale that we can cover our costs.

Good luck pressuring Mozilla to cut its top exec's pay from seven figures. Your words are empty.

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Re:Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher by BrendanEich on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:29AM (#20846841)
Mozilla says I was not fired: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat.... Are they lying?

On “racist”, you are wrong. But you seem to have trouble with the truth, so I will stop here.