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Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
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This is great an all, but how exactly does Mozilla profit from this? Like didn't they axe a huge swath of employees a couple of years ago because they had too many departments not generating profit?
Mozilla's core purpose isn't to make profit, and so some projects won't (and shouldn't) be focussed on making money. I don't think people would trust the recommendations if there was a profit aspect mixed in
are they not a for-profit company?
My understanding is that Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on open & accessible internet, and they have a for-profit arm that helps fund those initiatives.
So it's possible that the for-profit arm might axe projects that aren't working / not bringing in money, since otherwise it would put their wider goals at risk.
read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
Aaah, gotcha. For someone reason I thought it was the other way around. Thanks
No problem, happy to share :)