Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog
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LAURA CHAMBERS, CEO, MOZILLA CORPORATION As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising. Our hypothesis is that we n
  • Redex@lemmy.world
    112·
    2 months ago

    Ok sure, what do you want them to do instead then? 80% of their income is reliant on a tech giant’s grace and is seemingly more and more likely to be cutoff soon. They need to survive somehow, and every monetised service they tried flopped thusfar.

    • doleo@lemmy.oneEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      How about not have a multi-million-dollar-costing CEO? Seems a bit rich (pun intended) for a supposed non-profit org.

      • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
        23·
        2 months ago

        Yeah I’m not defending that but CEO pay only rounds to like 1% of their total expenditures. Developing a browser is expensive.

        • doleo@lemmy.oneEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          only 1%? That’s about on par with a fortune 500 company, which supposedly Mozilla is not.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      2 months ago

      Ideas:

      • directly ask for donations, and actually use those donations to fund browser development
      • build an add-on to pay sites instead of seeing ads - Mozilla could take a cut here
      • push harder on existing, optional add-ons that generate revenue, like their VPN

      But the article here reads like, “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas. Have ads…”