Make Firefox subscription-based

[tech-yaz]

Hi!

This is certainly going to get a ton of enthusiastic responses 😊 but please hear me out...

I read that Google might not be allowed to keep paying Mozilla for making their search default on Firefox (https://tuta.com/blog/will-ban-on-google-payments-kill-mozilla-firefox).

Why not make Firefox subscription-based? I for one would be willing to pay 10 euros a month for a good, privacy-respecting, open-source browser, and I don't think I would be the only one.

Mozilla could finally be able to dump Google, whose association with Mozilla many of us have watched with distaste, and could concentrate on making a proper browser. (And, if I'm allowed to make requests, a suite of privacy-respecting products: e-mail, storage, calendars etc.)

If this would happen it would certainly create howls of anger and accusations of betraying the ideals of open source, but I would much rather pay for Firefox than have Google have anything to say how Mozilla conducts itself. Just an idea...

[Jon]

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[singhh9596]

They already have thunderbird for email, vpn, relay, monitor as part of their suite.

[Jimbon]

Not everyone willing to pay for something that available for free, it would speed up extinction of Firefox