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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

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[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Their question is: how much would you pay for not using a Chromium based browser?

People switching to the browser and zapping all ads, demanding open source and vitriol for any kind of monetization. How can they survive? They would have to become a subsidized utility, which not even the Internet as a whole has achieved.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 days ago

I wouldn't mind paying money for a good browser. I paid for Opera back in the day, and browsers are significantly more complex (and cost several orders of magnitude more to develop) now compared to back then.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

WTF. They had $1b banked a few days ago. This is a bit reactionary perhaps?

[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're likely preparing for their funding from Google to be cut. Having a lot of money in the bank doesn't matter if your income is lower than expenses, since you'll run out of money eventually.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Expecting millions to be cut is still extreme when you have a fucking billion in the bank.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They get around $500 million per year from Google, so $1 billion is just two years worth of that. 86% of Mozilla's revenue comes from that Google deal.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

well you see. all the cool kids are laying off staff and Mozilla wants to hang out at their pool next summer.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh geez the leadership is making more mistakes.

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[–] zerog_bandit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

On mobile, search Google for "election" and then try to zoom in on any state.

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