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Turns out when you gotta choose between going defunct and selling ad space, selling ad space wins.
Also turns out that drying up donations for privacy protecting browsers means there is less demand for it, and less money to fund it.
The majority cost of Firefox is engineering salaries.
Eventually something has to give, and this is it.
This isn't even a good target for the outrage....
I get Luiging some healthcare insurance. But a state ran nonprofit for workers comp access with a CEO who makes 2x the salary of a mid level Netflix dev isn't exactly the big bad guy here.
I'm all for it, but can we choose more wisely?
$600k/y is not "the rich". That's on the upper end of American middle class in 2025 if you consider the same quality of living as the same upper end 30 years ago.
The folks making $5, $10, $50 million/y are the ones we should be focusing on.
Not the CEO of a state ran, nonprofit, critical insurance agency who makes ~2x as much as a mid level software engineer at Netflix.
Hell, even worse, crying in the lost information. Discord is a black hole where community knowledge goes to die.
It's the worst.
I don't see it on the app store to remove anymore
Chrome* or Chromium based browsers*
Protocols are much more difficult to create and implement.
The barrier for technical ability and maturity is much higher. Which is why you don't see them as often, and when you do see them they tend to suck, have massive gaps, or some other significant failing that prevents them from really scaling out.
Building reliable and robust protocols with a hobby project is a nearly impossible task, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of minds over a long period of time to settle on the specifications. And just as long to actually implement it.
Usually this requires some sort of funding and dedicated resources from the get-go. Which many of these projects lack.
Your getting downvoted for an accurate statement.
This really is just redditv2. Discussion to the sidelines over vibes and feels.
This is definitely not a healthy dismissal of privacy violating behavior.
Especially in this day and age where it's being increasingly weaponized.
And in only one comment you managed go from "immigrate to a different country", as a panacea.
To "if you are part of 4.5% of the gross eligible population, then just immigrate to a different country by going through a difficult asylum process"
You do realize how ridiculous and a unrealistic the statements are right?
Conveniently missed note above ☝️
The remainder of the executive team is paid what appears to be a fairly reasonable salary for the industry, low even.
The biggest cost ($6mill) is paid by the for profit Mozilla corporation.
Browser development is crazy hard, and expensive, work. Mozilla has honestly done a TON with the resources at hand. Google over here spending hundreds of millions for Chrome
It just sucks that they are seeing financial pressures that drive them into the profit corner.