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 rafark on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:43PM (#36079127)

But you’re the minority. Firefox is already free and has what, like 3% of the market share? If it became a paid browser it’d lose like 98% of its users (if we consider an industry standard conversion rate of about 2%).

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:12PM (#36079351)

There is a difference between "paid" and "accepts donations", but as people pointed out, Firefox does not accept donations (the Mozilla Foundation does, but that goes towards activism, not towards Firefox development/MDN).

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by bhhaskin on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:01AM (#36080164)

Exactly. Allow me to donate to Firefox development.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by jlpom on Friday May 26, 2023 @07:40AM (#36082809)

Money pays devs, not market share. It's obvious in a small market with few competitors (my company pays 10k € /yr for a simulation software seldomly used), but it's still true imo in a large market with many. Competitors that uses tracking and have more users, will often have more money for dev and advertisement, and there is the risk that webdevs won't care for the browser (already happening), but it still can work. But it needs to be noticabely better or pertains to uses cases not coverred for it works.

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