I don’t use Arc Browser because I feel like this is how it will go

> they give it to me for free
> I’m conditioned to expect it for free
> vc buxx dry up
> oh no businesses have to make money
> they have to do something I won’t like as a user to make money
> back to Chrome, subsidized by the search money printer

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that would be ideal outcome (rather than do something nefarious/intrusive to try and keep it free) 

Mozilla makes $$ just by “default search engine” type distribution deals but idk how long that will last as their market share is dwindling

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The Polygon Model 💀 bahahahahaha

I was wondering about this in some of the other replies. Seems like the gravy train ab to run out for Mozilla. They are losing market share YoY and never had that much to begin with

Mozilla can’t sustain itself without Google remaining dominant. 

Brave had to print a shitcoin that they proceeded to dump on speculators to fund their work (we’ll call this the Polygon model), and everything else is just Chrome with more tracking.

We really need a new model for finding OSS.