[beretguy]

I’d rather they make Firefox subscription based. I’d rather pay $5 a month and have no ads or tracking of any kind. They can even run a separate fork of Firefox or something for this purpose. If Firefox goes down Google will lock internet behind a DRM and we gonna need another rms or Torvalds to deliver us from this hell.

Can you imagine a world without Linux, with Windows and Mac pretty much the only mainstream alternative? I’d rather pay a small fee not to have that.

[Marsymars]

Paid web browsers have been tried... Opera and OmniWeb probably the most notable examples, and it just doesn't seem like there's a workable market there.

[int_19h]

Things have changed. We have paid search engines now, and they don't seem to be having a problem finding customers.

[beretguy]

Yeah, but I don’t think we had Google trying to lock internet behind a DRM at the time.

[xnyan]

>Windows and Mac pretty much the only mainstream alternative

That's not the world we live in today?

[beretguy]

We have Linux to choose from. Imaging we didn’t have that option.

[JohnFen]

> I’d rather they make Firefox subscription based.

Software subscriptions are a hard "no" for me. Even if I loved literally everything else about Firefox, if they did this I'd have to stop using it.

[fifteen1506]

No subscription for me tyvm.

I do donate on average €2/month for various projects, though.

[beretguy]

Yes, I understand.