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A-fucking-I doesn't make the product better. Mozilla constantly runs in every direction other than what their core users want or need.

> You want Mozilla to stop doing that? Guarantee their moneis flow.

Sure, just as soon as they sell something a privacy focused user of a browser wants. Privacy focused password management built into Firefox with paid sync or enterprise integration. Privacy focused paid email hosting, works great with Thunderbird. Had they done any of this back in the day, I'd gladly have paid for it and trusted them over smaller names or Google.

I'm sure they're getting lots of money to throw around playing with the new shiny, but that's not going to keep their users, or keep them happy.

They lost a ton of market share when the browser was slow as an old dog and chrome came on the scene, but they didn't do nearly enough to make up for it.


Interestingly, Proton does a lot of what you're talking about: email hosting, password management, cloud storage, docs and spreadsheets. The only thing they don't have is their own browser.
Proton started banning journalists and political dissidents, so they're a joke now.
They have some of that. Password sync is free for example though. (If private enough for you) and they have email relay and vpn as a paid feature

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