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What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?

But nobody pays for Firefox? Do you mean the “recommended pages”?

They get money from Google, advertisements, and selling data. Did you think Mozilla made it without paying their employees and executives?

Money for their executives

“…from email to LLMs, that nobody self-hosts”

As someone that self-hosts those things, both professionally and personally, I’m gonna have to disagree. I wish more did, but there are plenty of self-hosters out there, they just don’t get headlines.

Because they keep betraying their supposed values for short-term gains.