A referral isn't really useful on its own. Ideally the person doing the referral needs to have the ear of the HM and followup regularly. Otherwise it's an easily missed note on an ATS.

We could make the referrer's company email a field in the ATS

Fork Firefox, bundle uBlock Origin, Sponsor Block et el and sell it is a consumer web security product (that's not complete shit) with a monthly subscription. Use some of the proceeds to support the devs working on the underlying tech, similar to what Valve are doing for Wine, Proton and Fex.

Bonus points:

1. Multi layered approach to dealing with ads and other malware.

2. A committment to no AI or other bloat - that's not what I'm paying you for.

3. Syncable profiles.

Charging for a browser died with Netscape in 1998

I think that's false, with the current state of internet, advertising everywhere, enshitification and monetization of users private data, some people are ready to pay for services that were considered "free".

I am paying for kagi, and I would pay for a good, private browser (I know they make onion but I'm on linux, not macos or windows).

Vivaldi is a decent option if you aren't specifically looking to get off Blink as the engine. It has an integrated adblocker and many other privacy-related features.

I'm specifically avoiding chrome-based browser as form of protest against google's monopoly.

Currently using waterfox, but might go for librewolf... In any case I'm very interested in servo, even thinking of contributing to it.

But I'm not pitching a browser. This is a web security product which people do pay for - it's a billion dollar product category in fact. The only functional difference is that the malware and fraud protection it provides is demonstrably superior to all of its competitors.

How about doubling down on your strengths? Privacy, customizability, open standards, defacto stewardship of the open web - to name but a few. What do any of them have to do with AI? Here's a hint: none of them.

I'm so tired of this bullshit. I can live with tweaking flags to remove the AI "features" in Firefox but I'm not going to use a fucking AI or "Agentic" browser. That's not what I or a significant chunk of your users want.

Little known fact, the Steam Deck has hardware ray tracing, it's just so weak as to be almost non-existent.

NPD.

Small data point: I brought a Sony Android TV in 2023 which doesn't have any of the annoyances I keep reading about here. Made in Japan for the Japanese market, haven't seen a single ad and it predates my use of AdGuard DNS. Whether this is a regional or Sony thing I'm not sure.

More likely they'll use it and end up with a false sense of security.

Maybe there is a correlation between religion and the proximity to power lines.

We need a "Right to Be Left Alone" law.

Every home is required to have a telescreen.

At least we still have the right to not buy a TV... (for now?)

Rust is going to feel more familiar to Tor contributors than Go. Based on the list of platinum members (which includes Google and Tor btw) there's some serious money going into the Rust Foundation, assuming it's managed properly I can't see funding as an issue.

https://rustfoundation.org/members/

I don't see any transparency with the funds. So it's hard to grasp how much is it.

But it's never going to surpass Go which is owned by a 4 trillion dollar conglomerate.