Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
I'd be happy to pay for Firefox, but I have a few points that are important to me. They are probably not very realistic but here they are anyway:<p>1. <i>I would like my money to go into Firefox development and nowhere else.</i><p>I certainly don't want my money spent on their content business, even if it is used as a leverage to generate more money for Firefox development. I'm torn about Rust development because I certainly would love to see Rust flourish, but if we allow the money go into personally preferred projects it becomes hard to draw the line.<p>2. <i>I would like a Firefox with absolutely no strings attached.</i><p>- No Pocket, not even a trace of it. The proper place for Pocket is a plugin.<p>- No experiments, labs or whatever they call it (see Mr. Robot for an example)<p>- No network connections to third party hosts as long I haven't explicitly opted in.<p>- Safe search off by default<p>- No predefined search engines<p>- No predefined start page<p>3. <i>I would like Mozilla (as a whole and not only the Firefox branch) to be more careful with the selection of their businesses partners.</i><p>I'm am not aiming at their co-operations with Google, Yandex and the like, which are OK for me. At least as long as my points from above are respected. Specifically I'm OK if the free version of Firefox continues to be sponsored mainly by Google. I'm not OK with business deals of the kind they had with Cliqz for example.<p>4. <i>I would like to be able to pay without having to be logged into a Firefox account.</i><p>This is actually davidhyde's idea from another thread [1] but I added it here because I fully agree.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20144726" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20144726</a>