This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
How do rambling blog articles full of terrible assumptions and analysis like this get posted? Is there an alternative technology community I could sub to that cares about quality content?
Firefox Marketshare nosedives
That can’t be true, literally everyone on the Fediverse uses Firefox.
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This is for the year 2022. The reddit migration was 2023.
Also the fediverse is less than 0.1% of social media market share.
I'd like to have the same kind of bonuses when I don't meet my KPIs
Okay, so, good news for the CEO, but terrible news for the Internet as a whole. Awesome.
I’ll never understand how someone can get paid like that. If Mozilla was destroying the opposition, I’d get it though.
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A significant portion of this blog post is complaining about Mozilla's repeated attempts to find new revenue streams that aren't Firefox (i.e Google or Microsoft paying them to be the default search provider). It's a sentiment I see a lot and I just don't get it.
They say Google paying to be the default search provider being a bad thing and it makes Mozilla too reliant on an evil company, and yet when Mozilla says "yeah, we hear ya, that's why we're trying to find stuff to diversify into so we can become less reliant on Google" people cry and shout "you should be sticking to Firefox, why aren't you focussing on Firefox??"
Like, which is it? Do you want Mozilla to diversify and have a more sustainable revenue stream, or do you want them to focus on Firefox and commit to reliance on Google? Because maintaining a project as big as Firefox without any funding simply isn't possible, and people aren't going back to paying for web browsers.
What these people want is not at all realistic. Devs want to be paid for their work. They can't have that if Mozilla follows idiots like Lunduke's "don't take money from Google, but also don't do anything that will make money. Only do Firefox."
I've yet to see a single one of these people offer any alternative that comes even remotely close to being feasible.
I'm okay with Mozilla trying to diversify their source of incomes, as long as it's focused on privacy. Firefox Relay is a great example of a paid service that helps preserving some privacy and I gladly pay for it.
I hope they'll make more privacy-focused optional services like that. If it helps paying for Firefox continued development while detaching from Google then it's a good idea.
