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takluyverlast Wednesday at 11:52 AM1 replyview on HN

That analogy doesn't really work, though: Mozilla's goal is not specifically to fight against online advertising. Ad-blocking is connected to their goals, definitely, but they clearly have to make compromises, and I'm not that surprised that they'd think about that one.


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lukeschlatherlast Wednesday at 5:30 PM

> they clearly have to make compromises

Why? They have ample free cashflow. They haven't had money problems in 10 years. If they're worried about Google withdrawing support they should save money in an endowment, not do things to help Google.