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by Aerbil313 958 days ago
This actually makes sense… Why isn’t Mozilla rolling out ad tracking to Firefox for it to fund itself? Oh yeah, they’re already getting all the money they need from Google.
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I assume the real answer is that because the moment they did there'd be a thousand forks and nobody would use Mozilla's browser anymore

Updates would probably slow down a lot, but I doubt that everyone would stop working on it, and that nobody new would step up to maintain whatever the most popular folks were.

Your comment is assuming that people don’t get funding through ads for nonprofit open source projects is a good idea. Which they may not.