“How? It will continue to invest in privacy-respecting advertising; fund, develop and push open-source AI features”
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privacy-respecting advertising
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 sure, sure
I mean… Yeah. I’d much rather Mozilla serve me ads that help them fund Firefox and be less reliant on Google while also being less evil than Google. If I have to choose I’ll take ads that don’t use as much data from me even if a little bit, as long as it’s not Google or meta levels
I guess that’s what happens when the last competitor in a space is being funded by the monopolistic option and you threaten to cut that off.
Two things I think are interesting here:
This is in line with every other minority browser out there. It’s not working for them, either.
There is a remarkable lack of projects to create alternatives getting traction. Nobody is even repackaging Gecko into a different browser. I don’t have the knowledge to tell if making and maintaining a browser is just that expenive and hard, but it sure seems like a reasonable explanation.
There is this one, it has a lot of momentum and it’s been pleasant to use so far. Firefox + fancy features
Firefox + fancy features
Means that it completely relies on Mozilla’s development work for the actual engine.
Lots of traction is a stretch.
The discord (unfortunately) is active and they push out features often
Relatively speaking, it’s pretty active. Just not in the grand scheme of things. I’ve been putting off trying it out, but you just might have given me the push I need.
Rather sad about discord yeah.
Just not in the grand scheme of things
Yea that’s fair, I haven’t kept up with Arc (the chromium equivalent of Zen) but I imagine they’re still ahead
Oof, bad news for you. Arc is on life support. The company is pivoting to development of a different browser.
Story about it from the verge.
The company doesn’t need to grow. It needs to roll back its original sin and become a user advocacy organization.
Unfortunately that doesn’t pay the bills. The development is costly
