Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by Swenrekcah on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:38AM (#28784126)

If you get 5000 people paying $5/month for every person working on a truly private browser, you have $25,000/month per teammate.

I'm sure you could find 50,000 people in the world willing to pay this. I'm one of them.

The problem is how you get started while building reputation, but I'm sure that it's possible.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:59AM (#28784288)

> The problem is how you get started while building reputation, but I'm sure that it's possible.

In case of Mozilla/Firefox: do this while you still have some reputation left. It's literally the one party on the Internet that would have a chance of pulling it off.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by denton-scratch on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:36AM (#28786046)

I approve of this traditional usage of the term "literally". It's literally correct, but possibly too late - they've been burning bridges for five years.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by samhw on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:51AM (#28784238)

There's some remarkable sleight of hand in "for every person working on [it]". That's a lot of people required to build a browser. Are you suggesting each of those 5000 users pays $5 multiplied by $NUM_OF_DEVELOPERS, or that you'll need [5000 multiplied by $NUM_OF_DEVELOPERS] users?

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by Swenrekcah on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:34AM (#28784515)

The latter. The numbers are not precise, it's just to show that you really don't need a lot of paying people and they really don't need to pay a lot each.

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