This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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    16 days ago

    There was a poll a while back on mastodon and the majority answered they’d be ok with 5$/year to support Firefox.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      The kind of people you find on Mastodon following Firefox news are not the same as the average person. They are a bubble.

      A few thousand people paying $5 per year is not enough to replace hundreds of millions.

      • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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        16 days ago

        A few thousand people paying $5 per year is not enough to replace hundreds of millions.

        …people or dollars? ‘Cos i don’t think “hundreds of millions” of people are chippin’ in, it’s Google that’s financing “hundreds of millions” of dollars…

        But yeah, that target audience is a bubble, normies don’t care.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Dollars.

          Google is giving hundreds of millions because they fear regulators getting involved.

          A handful of people who follow Mozilla on Mastodon saying they’re willing to pay up to a meagre $5 per year won’t do anything.