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Firefox Forever (www.quippd.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/foss@beehaw.org
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“A republic, if you can keep it.”

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

off the top of my head,

  • Mozilla VPN
  • Mozilla Pocket
  • Llama file (and all the other AI BS like Solo)
  • Didthis was just recently shut down

and there were other serfvices that I can't remember right now. And then there is all the money they redirect everywhere else for advocacy and other stuff that I don't care at all about. If I donate to mozilla, I want to donate to firefox, not some random junk projects.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Pocket and VPN make money, that would be like firing IRS auditors in the name of efficiency.

    I agree that general purpose AI isn't really all that interesting, since I don't think it is going to drive involvement or investment. I also imagine that it doesn't really cost that much - they don't have any real products behind it, and they all seem clearly experimental.

    I guess I understand your aversion to contributing to "junk projects", but if they are junk projects, there isn't likely to be a ton of investment. Harder to shift the bottom line.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Didn't think anyone would subscribe to Pocket - a good proportion of the links require external subscriptions.

    Sorry, but am not going down that route. Unless you're telling me all the links to externals become free.

    IIRC I tried a free trial of Premium but still had to subscribe to Medium etc. That put me right off. I might just as well subscribe to Medium and forget about Pocket.

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