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by mixmastamyk 1048 days ago
They should fire most of the overhead personnel and sock their salaries into income producing investments, so when big G closes the tap, R&D can continue indefinitely.

Hopefully then they’ll stop reinventing tabs, ruining privacy, and focus on the aforementioned bugs.

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The sort of have other revenue generating products. From top of my head, they have firefox relay, vpn, a cooperation with pocket(getpocket_com) and I see some more test products. They are trying but once you offer people something for free, trying to side/up-sell your monetized products feel sleezy and a lot of reputation hit(see pocket integration causing outrage, or brave promoting their crypto bundle thing which you can entirely hide and never use).