TLDR: Mozilla makes money from Google paying it to be the default search engine on Firefox. If that practice is outlawed, Mozilla will not have any income stream even close to replacing that.

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amelius 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

EU should heavily subsidize Mozilla, so that this is not necessary.

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malicka 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

They definitely shouldn’t. Mozilla has talented engineers, but it’s been catastrophically mismanaged for almost 20 years at this point. Keep Firefox, but let Mozilla finally die.

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Meneth 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mozilla wasted most of its money on crappy features no one wanted. They should not be subsidized by anyone.

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yoavm 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's not clear what this claim is based on. Most of its money? Firefox is an excellent browser, and probably much less funded than Chrome/Safari.

	▲	chrismorgan a minute ago \| parent [-]
		Read through https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-...: six years ago, Mozilla laid off 250 people, about a quarter of their staff, in order to focus on… two specific services that they have since killed (Pocket, Hubs), one service completely unrelated to the browser (VPN, though they have recently decided to set more money on fire by integrating some VPN stuff into Firefox, where it never had any place and is frankly an affront), and new and unspecified “security and privacy” tools (probably things like Relay and Monitor) which are almost certainly completely unrelated to the browser. Mozilla is deeply unhealthy, and has been slowly collapsing for more than a decade at this point. I believe that the significant majority of its staff are doing things of no or negative value to Firefox. I suspect that ten developers not beholden to Mozilla but with a mandate to make a good browser would be better custodians of Firefox. If you raised the budget to forty, I’m all but certain of it.

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alexdns 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why Mozilla in particular ? Or its that just what you like ?

	▲	ForHackernews 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Gecko is the only semi-mainstream browser engine that isn't controlled by Google.

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EbNar 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Nope. Why should my money (taxes) fund a US corporation?

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typeofhuman 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is this a problem? I don't understand it.

Would this apply to services offering to "promote" your post/listing to the top of the page. Like what is the legislation and logic here.