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by Ygg2 2138 days ago
> There aren't enough people willing to pay for a web browser in 2020.

As one said, their problems didn't start in 2020. Honestly, Firefox should have fought tooth and nail to be THE embeddable browser. We should not be embedding Blink/WebKit but Gecko or Servo.

It should have fought Google in EU, but kinda hard to do that when you depend on them.

The reason they got checkmated weren't made now, but several years before.
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fxtentacle 2138 days ago
People are willing to pay for antivirus, which promises to protect you from the dangers of the open internet, just like what a good web browser can do. I would pay $5 a month for a browser where I'm in control.

I mean my company also pays a lot every year just to upgrade us to Windows Enterprise. And to me, going from Chrome to an unpleasant-surprise-free alternative would be similar.

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