Ask HN: Would you pay a monthly subscription for Firefox?
Now that we know that Firefox is in danger (and by extension the open web), we as a community must now vote with our wallets - let Firefox fend for themselves and be overtaken by a monoculture, or support Mozilla financially ourselves.
I ask that Mozilla think about having the option for a monthly subscription model. No extra features for paying (e.g $5/month for Firefox), but at least as paying users we will know that it's helping to support the open web and the survival of Mozilla as a whole.
Would you become a monthly subscriber if you had the option?
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We're told there is a pivot. We have not been told FF is being thrown under a bus.
Firefox still invades the privacy of most users. 1. Install Firefox 2. Type privacy in the search bar 3. Google is now tracking you
It embraces dark patterns that invade privacy, whilst criticising other companies for their devices that invade privacy.
Mozilla need to understand how they are part of the problem before I'd start paying for them. As a privacy campaigner, should I pay for a product that invades it by default? It's hard to... I use them because they're the lesser evil.
For $5/month I'd better get features that the free people don't get.