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Firefox + Mozilla are awesome. I still have a Mozilla 1.0 t-shirt from the first release party!<p>I&#x27;ve recently seen a ton of FF fans state that the reason they love Firefox is that it doesn&#x27;t have ads or track you and preserves your privacy.<p>However, Firefox wouldn&#x27;t exist without Google and (to a lesser extent, Google Chrome).<p>They make 94% of their revenue via bundling and distribution deals with companies like Google.<p>So to say that Firefox doesn&#x27;t really have ads I think it is a bit disingenuous.  They don&#x27;t have ads directly but they benefit directly from the ecosystem.<p>Without Google&#x27;s ad business Firefox wouldn&#x27;t exist.<p>Not saying this to be rude or call you guys out.  I think we need an honest discussion on this issue.<p>Across the industry, we see users just outright refusing to pay for products because they&#x27;re accustomed to &#x27;free&#x27; being the norm.<p>News, social media, browsers, etc.<p>If you charge for a news site the users will revolt and go somewhere else.<p>If Facebook tried to charge users they would revolt.<p>Same thing for browsers.<p>Yet a large percentage of these same users will get angry and yell that they&#x27;re privacy is being sold.<p>I&#x27;d rather things be direct.  I&#x27;d rather we live in a world where customers paid directly for the product and <i>I</i> was the customer (not the product).