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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. (blog.mozilla.org)
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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Wikipedia has a far wider reach, doesn't have competitors in quite the same way Mozilla does, and needs far less money than Mozilla.

It takes hundreds of millions every year to maintain a modern web engine, have top-tier security, etc. It's harder than maintaining an OS, even.

I just don't see enough people getting in on that.

You mention Patreon. Alright, let's go with that. The largest Patreon project by far earns less than $3m per year. Mozilla would need probably 150x that.