Even More Evidence That Firefox Wants to Be the Anti-Chrome
Mozilla CEO Chris Beard said in an interview that the company is looking to launch subscription-based premium features that bolster privacy and security
By Katharine Schwab
Right now, the web is full of free services that are supported by advertising–and collecting and monetizing data about you. But as people have become more aware of the privacy problems inherent in a system where the primary currency is personal information, paying for the web services that value your privacy starts to sound a lot more appealing.
Mozilla–a company that’s owned by a nonprofit that focuses on protecting the free and open internet–has positioned itself as a privacy-first alternative to its data-hungry competitors, making Firefox, its primary product, a leading option for people who don’t want to keep giving Google their data via Chrome. Now, as the German news site T3N reported earlier this week, Mozilla is the latest privacy-focused organization to play around with the idea of a premium, subscription-based business model that could help support that work.
According to Mozilla’s CEO Chris Beard, the company is planning to launch premium features tied to users’ Firefox accounts this…
