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Mozilla explains their recent foray into advertising - A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy (blog.mozilla.org)

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MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

Well, how did they do it in 90s-2010s? Genuinely asking. What's changed that they can no longer do this.

[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Netscape, which was essentially the predecessor to Mozilla, was a well funded VC-backed startup. That’s how they did it.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

and only now the investors are asking for their return? Or the investors aren't re-investing and that's the problem?

[-] ants_are_everywhere@mathstodon.xyz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@tetris11 @GnuLinuxDude

Mozilla Corporation -- which makes Firefox -- is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation. The foundation is a nonprofit.

A nonprofit can't generate a lot of business income unrelated to its mission. Firefox used to generate a lot of income, so it had to be spun off into a taxable entity called Mozilla Corporation.

The corporation doesn't have investors in the usual sense.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Christ that's a messy inheritance model. Hopefully Firefox will be spun off to, and will have to focus solely on the browser.

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