Mozilla Corporation, the company behind the Firefox browser, plans to lay off around 250 employees as soon as Tuesday, according to an email sent to staff and a blog post from the company.
Let's face it, Mozilla is COMPLETELY dependent on Google, their biggest competitor and they are at their mercy when it comes to generating ANY substantial revenue.
In 2018, $430m of their $451m total revenue came from royalties from Google.
Their contract with Google runs out in November. Perhaps these layoffs mean they are planning for a much smaller check this year.
Mozilla's problem is their management..period.
The pilot and copilot have NO CLUE as to what people want when it comes to online privacy. They are so far behind the online privacy curve in offering new technology and are merely playing the "me too" game.
They introduced their VPN after every other player in the game had come out with one and people have now locked in "lifetime subscriptions".
It is also a bit of hypocrisy to advertise new "privacy" features" when the user's data is still being shared with the largest data gathering player.
Mozilla is still thinking of how to ADD new things to the computer to deliver privacy when it is REMOVING the computer from the browsing session that will ultimately deliver complete online anonymity.
Google won't let Mozilla die as they need to show they have a "competitor", albeit a fox who's leg is caught in the Google trap..
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