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Mozilla is testing sponsored links (ads) in the top sites view, at least it can just be disabled. (support.mozilla.org)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

how many ads do we have to click to pay Mitchell Baker’s salary?

By 2020 her salary had risen to over $3 million, while in the same year the Mozilla Corporation had to lay off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker

It’s hard to believe the browser is endangered because they only have 500M a year from putting Google front and center. Is this a move to disentangle from the paid search business or to augment it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

if will become the reason mozzilla dies... just wtf