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Comment by shahsyed | Hacker News Reader

This is the exact same thing they said they wouldn't do, and now they're doing it.

This is very unfortunate. I'm not liking how the future is looking here. Fired a bunch of people, then announce a partnership with Google, and now this.

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When did they say they wouldn’t do that?

I am not seeing the big concern around promoting paid ads on the add on site assuming they are clearly marked as such.

That’s how they’ve made money since the beginning except it was ads on all searches, and it was google doing the infrastructure work for them.

The company needs money. They're the only browser out there not directly controlled by Google & Apple.

Do they though?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-go...

Yes. It's unwise to depend on a sole source of income.

I don't think browsers can make money so easily, except in the case of Opera which started collecting browsing history to show full page ads.

Yeah this seems like an ok experiment so they aren't totally dependent on google for income.

they just had to lay off dozens.

Step 1: fire everybody who isn't a programmer.

Step 2: budget problem is solved.

Step 3: learn the hard way why companies founded by nerds who are dismissive of entire other professions tend to go out of business even faster

> by nerds

Really? Was that necessary?

Having been a nerd immersed in nerd culture for a few decades, I would suggest you consider that question in light of the degree to which the referenced trope is popular in our community. Yes, there are individual people who don’t contribute enough but that doesn’t mean that entire fields are useless any more than developers who slack or code for job security are an accurate representation of our field.

> This is the exact same thing they said they wouldn't do.

Please explain. Your comment is very negative with 0 reasoning.

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