Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by prepend on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:27AM (#24130881)

I don’t think Mozilla should have Brave per se, but it shows some of the work they could have done.

If they had to literally skin chrome to do then I guess they could. But they should be capable of so much more.

Specially Brave is faster to launch and uses less resources than Firefox and had privacy and ad blocking features turned on by default. I particularly like the little bug that shows you how much bloat it’s blocked.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by michaelmrose on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:21PM (#24136422)

Adblocking out of the box would be hard given that most of mozillas ad money comes from search partners which are at root ad companies. They still advertise adblockers like ublock origin among their recommended addons and enabling adblocking is 30 seconds work and with sync it will be automatically added to firefox as soon as you sign into sync.

Ultimately this money is what has enabled Mozilla to exist at all. Brave is living on borrowed money from presumed future revenue from its cryptocurrency scheme which may or may not come to fruition.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by prepend on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:37PM (#24139137)

Then they are putting themselves against their customers.

They could still just get search placement and make tons and tons of money, enough to develop their browser.

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