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by bigbugbag 3119 days ago
This is something I wondered about for quite some time now. How come so many employees and so much spent money with so little to show for it.

Reading the reason for dropping alsa support or refusing to have better linux integration it seems mozilla is short on dev time and resources which they clearly are not.

Do you remember when they got 10 000 people donating money to pay to place an ad for firefox 1.0 in NY Times while at the same time they had revenue in tens of millions of dollars ?

Mozilla had a strong stance against a content blocker in firefox for what ? 15 years ? Whatever they said to justify this position it is obvious that the actual reason is conflict of interest with their main source or revenue.

Isn't it strange that while their user base has been divided by 5 their revenue has been up by more than a hundred millions ? Even more so when this revenue is based on number of users being sent to search engine of this commercial partner.

Has anyone on HN and explanation for this ?
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fabrice_d 3119 days ago
Their user base has not been divided by 5. Their market share is way down, because they are not growing with the pool (not surprising given their lack of success in Mobile), which is a different metric.

They are paid for the number of eyeballs they send to their search partners, and it's still a few hundred millions users. Also, it seems that they were underpaid compared to other companies like Opera and Apple were getting per user.

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rebelwebmaster 3119 days ago
Yeah, massively overhauling their code base over the last year really is nothing to show for it.
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a_imho 3118 days ago
Mozilla had a strong stance against a content blocker in firefox for what ? 15 years ? Whatever they said to justify this position it is obvious that the actual reason is conflict of interest with their main source or revenue.

I don't think anyone can really blame the decision, but they should be more straightforward where their loyalties ultimately lie. The fact that one of the best known alternatives to chrome and so called independent browser is in cahoots with Google is a sad state of things.

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