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The Mozilla layoffs ... will get worse (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just saw a post complaining about the Mozilla layoffs.

I wanted to point out that the vast majority of their income (over 85% in 2022) is from having Google as the default search engine - Ironically, the anti monopoly lawsuit against Google will end this.

Expect things to get worse.

Please don't assume it was just a cruel choice.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Mozilla could have allowed people the option to subscribe for a modest fee in addition to giving it away for free, to diversify their income and be less dependent on Google, but they have not been trying that hard to develop other revenue streams.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

corpo parasites at the top were paid off to gut it from within... signal is going the same route imho

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's signal doing now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be clear this is tin foil... But the vibe is the same.

Mainly, they get decent budget and staff but they are not pushing the product forward. They don't care about mass reach or usability, they cover this with claiming that their core audience is a journalist living under an oppressive regime when their user is tech nerd in the west.

Either way there better solutions for that kind. It just doesn't feel like they competing here.

Kinda like Firefox stop pushing the edge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Signal does a decent job of encouraging people to make one-time or ongoing donations to the service. I’ve supported them multiple times because they gave me a prompt to do so.

I don’t recall Firefox ever asking for a donation or subscription.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

have you bought their vpn service? ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That’s something! But it doesn’t raise any money from people with other VPN providers or who don’t want to buy a VPN service.