Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page

Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by djbusby on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:45PM (#36077919)

How? Fork the engine or whole thing? How to pay for it? Costs many $$$ to build. Would maybe cost less without the stupid things they do but...seems a difficult calculation to make.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by grt_thr on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:49PM (#36077951)

There are dozens of smaller browsers that don't abuse their users. When Firefox loses the mind share it no longer deserves they will finally get enough money to hire a full-time developer.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by MindSpunk on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:48PM (#36078415)

Which all use chromium, which is in practice no different to using chrome in regards to extending google's web dominance?

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