Probably, because Mozilla knows they can't overtake Google's Chrome in the marketshare for browsers.
So instead of listening to the community, they listen to what dumb ideas are floating out there that alienates their community.
Dumbasses, Netscape died for this?
What's said at The Verge is simply "he says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox" as a way to bring in more revenue, but that it would be "off-mission." That does not indicate that he, or Mozilla, are going to be likely to attempt such a thing. It does indicate that he seriously overestimates his own power and that he's thinking like an ad company CEO, but it's not an actual threat to shut down ad-blockers. Well, probably not — we don't know exactly how he phrased whatever he said. I would hope that his colleagues have since explained to their CEO that "by the way, no you can't actually do that, it's not even possible." It would not bring in more revenue. It would very quickly reduce revenue to zero.
Some of the things they are doing are self-destructive enough, without imagining such implausible ones.
Corporate culture is cancer. Business degrees are terminal.
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