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1. gettod+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-26 12:06:06
VPNs are barely gonna make a dent in their income. What do you think the market is for VPNs? 99% of people don't know what VPN means.

Of the remaining 1%, most don't need a VPN for anything personal. It's literally just a handful of geeks who need VPN (mainly for secure piracy, or accessing different regional Netflix catalogs), and maybe a few dozen journalists living in dictatorships.

Mozilla needs to gut spending. Get rid of all the diversity /hr/evangelism people bloating their employee headcount and funneling people's donations to divisive causes like that org that doesn't hire white men (forgot the name but it made me cancel my monthly donation to Mozilla). They shouldn't need more than 25% non-technical staff, and the purpose of those 25% should be exclusively to support the technical staff. Instead they became another bloated Big NGO that's basically welfare for liberal arts majors in California.

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2. codedo+e1[view] [source] 2023-07-26 12:14:58
>>gettod+(OP)
VPN is not only for geeks. VPNs (free ones) are popular in Russia because Instagram is blocked.
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3. mozbal+M2[view] [source] 2023-07-26 12:24:39
>>gettod+(OP)
If there is little money in VPNs, how is it that they are funding half the youtubers out there, potentially outbidding everyone else for the adspace.
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4. throw-+Rd[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-26 13:18:04
>>codedo+e1
But, conveniently, Russians cannot use paid VPNs anyway unless they accept Bitcoin.
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