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1. bhhask+h6[view] [source] 2023-05-25 23:25:01
>>ReadCa+(OP)
This is unacceptable. Mozilla has shown they are incapable of not abusing Firefox. There shouldn't be an advertising channel/system in the browser.

If you want to advertise, have a newsletter that people can opt into.

If you need money, allow people to pay for just Firefox.

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2. echelo+w9[view] [source] 2023-05-25 23:48:59
>>bhhask+h6
This was them trying to let people pay for Firefox. It was Mozilla VPN.

Everyone gets angry and has an opinion of how this sucks. There's no way for this to work out for Mozilla. Nothing they do will work or make everyone happy.

Google won.

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3. redund+oa[view] [source] 2023-05-25 23:55:17
>>echelo+w9
People pay for Firefox by using it. They make money from Google being the default search engine. They were previously getting paid to have yahoo be the default. Bing wants them to switch to them.

The VPN pop-up isn't an effort to provide funding for a dying browser. This is greed, pure and simple.

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