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Re:Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:33AM (#43232105)
I wonder why they haven't tried that yet:

Firefox Support Edition, for $10 a month you get nothing (or maybe some Sync stuff) but all the funds go to Firefox exclusively, and your copy will show a pretty star on startup or something else.

Patron Edition: for $20 a month, same thing but you also get the VPN from Mullvad.

160M users. If 10% subscribe, you get $160M every month. I'm a marketing genius.

Re:Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] by gruez on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:43AM (#43232209)
>160M users. If 10% subscribe, you get $160M every month. I'm a marketing genius.

Can't tell whether you're serious or being sarcastic. A 10% conversion rate for a free product would be the most successful marketing campaign in history. Typical rates are in the low single digits, and that includes goods/services that people have no choice but to pay money for (eg. drop shipped goods from china or SaaS products).