[yepthatsreality]

I’m a big proponent of a competitive open web. This is probably just more marketing companies coming up with more tracking attributes. I think Mozilla has great tech.

Having said all of that. I don’t understand two things:

1. Ads isn’t the only way to make money on the net. So I’ve never understood Mozilla’s inability to get away from them (probably because they never wanted to).

2. Why no one else besides Google seems to have the funds to build a competing browser engine. Or at least to fund a developer team to fork Firefox. While Firefox might not be as plugin-able as Chromium, do we need another browser like Chromium or just a better lead Firefox?

My concerns aren’t with Mozilla but rather maintaining an open competitive web through choice and competing engines. “UI Devs only test on one browser” commentary be damned.

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> 1. Ads isn’t the only way to make money on the net. So I’ve never understood Mozilla’s inability to get away from them (probably because they never wanted to).

Other ways to make money are generally more accessible to the sites themselves, and so aren't very relevant when trying to fund a browser.

[yepthatsreality]

I disagree, there are plenty of other ways. Mozilla has just chosen to position themselves under this one.