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Alternative sources of income are growing - the share of search engine deals was down to 86% last year, apparently: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/rcc7m6/mozilla_aga...

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Perhaps Mozilla should put the more advanced features and customisation options behind a monthly subscription. I know people dislike monthly subscriptions, but the browser is perhaps THE most important tool you can use. Maybe it's time we start valuing it properly.

The share of those profits that goes to Firefox development is far less than one might think, especially if one consider the many millions that goes to management of Mozilla foundation. Firefox would be a very different project if all the royalties received by search engines featured in the Firefox browser went to improve Firefox.

As long profits from Firefox does not goes back into developing Firefox, a monthly subscription wouldn't change things.

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