our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community

you don’t say

  • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Yeah screw these guys, I’m going back to chrome!

    But really, relax guys. Ads are the only way to run a profitable browser business. Change my mind. Any paid solution won’t get the scale to make the numbers work.

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      3 months ago

      Why do you think a web browser needs to make money?

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        3 months ago

        Web standards have been made so needlessly complex that a paid team of full time professionals has become an unspoken requirement to build a functionally complete web browser. I believe that the entities who guide web standards knew this, and had done so deliberately to push out competition from collaborative volunteer projects that were once long ago possible.