---
title: "Let me pay for Firefox!"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/let-me-pay-for-firefox--tg7sjpbli
source_url: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/let-me-pay-for-firefox/141297
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2025-07-13T10:13:12.332Z
updated: 2025-07-13T10:13:35.200Z
tags: ["open-source", "business", "privacy", "firefox", "mozilla"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 16
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# Let me pay for Firefox!

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 16 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

A longtime Mozilla community member and former employee argues that Firefox should offer a paid version to create a sustainable user-funded business model. The author contends that charging for open-source software is ethically compatible with free software principles, citing the Free Software Foundation's stance. They propose Mozilla experiment with a premium Firefox version featuring no sponsored content, telemetry, or default Google integration, with built-in ad-blocking. The argument centers on avoiding the pitfalls of ad-funded business models that lead to user exploitation and enshittification.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/let-me-pay-for-firefox/141297>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@javinto7** · 0 upvotes

> hahaha no

**@ronaldroe** · 0 upvotes

> Or, you could just use a free browser that offers those things 🤷

**@yichenchong** · 0 upvotes

> If you want to pay, just donate?

**@niemann** · 0 upvotes

> bs the mozilla foundations make millions per year in donations. I have donated to them for years until I realized how much money they got and how little work they do.

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Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#firefox](https://daily.dev/tags/firefox), [#mozilla](https://daily.dev/tags/mozilla)

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