I would pay for a browser that didn't spy on me everywhere I went, this doesn't fit the bill for me.
How does it spy on you?
Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
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Re: Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
#142Netscape is back on the menu, boys!
Re: Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
#143I'd be happy to pay for Firefox, but I have a few points that are important to me. They are probably not very realistic but here they are anyway: 1. I would like my money to go into Firefox development and nowhere else. I certainly don't want my money spent on their content business, even if it is used as a leverage to generate more money for Firefox development. I'm torn about Rust development because I certainly wo…
It's very unlikely that this will happen. Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. When you have demonstrated you are willing to pay money for a service, you are likely to also spent money on other goods. This only makes you more attractive as an advertising target. Most likely we will see premium features like: - premium color themes - more cloud storage for settings and extensio…
>Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free.
All I ever hear about in regards to news websites is that they're dying out because no one wants to pay for subscriptions, and the arms race is getting worse as many of them have strengthened their paywalls so that non-paying viewers can't see the articles (while others develop workarounds for the paywalls).
Magazines, like newspapers, also seem to be dying out, though not as fast as the print newspapers.
Maybe companies should rethink this business model.
Re: Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
#144Not sure about a Mozilla-run VPN. I'd trust them to have a competent-enough service, but I would definitely not expect them to try resisting any western government getting hold of their logs (though I guess the claim of any VPN to actually accomplish this is dubious at best). Maybe a good option if you live somewhere like China or certain Middle Eastern countries where you need a VPN just to get news not controlled b…
>Maybe a good option if you live somewhere like China or certain Middle Eastern countries where you need a VPN just to get news not controlled by the government
Could this cause Firefox to be banned in China?
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#146$500M a year isn’t enough to develop Firefox?
Most of their money comes from Google. I presume they see a future where that becomes less likely.
Re: Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
#147Let's hope it includes blocking auto-play videos from TheNextWeb.
About:config
Media autoplay default: 1
Media autoplay allow muted: false
Re: Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
#148I'm a long-time Firefox/Mozilla user, and I'd give it a try for $10/month. It would be an easy sell to me if it includes a reasonable amount of online storage.
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#149I'd be happy to pay for Firefox, but I have a few points that are important to me. They are probably not very realistic but here they are anyway: 1. I would like my money to go into Firefox development and nowhere else. I certainly don't want my money spent on their content business, even if it is used as a leverage to generate more money for Firefox development. I'm torn about Rust development because I certainly wo…
Can confirm, I would pay for a version of Firefox with just four "features":
- No Pocket anywhere in the code
- No telemetry / experiments / Normandy anywhere in the code
- No network connections to third party hosts (other than websites I'm viewing)
- No "discovery" feed / whatever they're calling the activity stream sponsored content thing now anywhere in the code
Just let me monthly subscribe via Paypal or whatever, and give me a private build server link and tar.gz of the source.
To be clear, I think there's quite a decent size market for something that could mostly be accomplished with a bash script that runs "rm -r" a few times.
Support for detecting RSS in a page would be great, but that's probably not going to happen.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your list of "strings attached" to Firefox are fairly weak because most represent a trivial few clicks in settings. Insisting that a piece of software must ship preconfigured exactly to your liking seems a bit selfish to me. Really though, how onerous is it to configure a fresh Firefox profile to suit your preferences? (And how often do you reset your Firefox profile anyway?) Complaints about Pocket are largely emoti…
He's basically saying the PAID version of firefox probably shouldn't be promoting google or other services with kickbacks.
But the vast (vast!) majority of users will be expecting Google as an option when they want to search. Removing it from the paid product by default would be a negative in terms of user experience.
From the end user perspective you'd be asking money for a product that takes more effort to set up. That's silly.