Comment by johndough

> Directly charge users for it. This is effectively a non-starter, because the vast majority of people aren't willing to pay for it.

I would gladly pay for Firefox, but I only found a way to donate to Mozilla, which also finances many other things that I am not interested in.

> Insert ads or sell user data - users also hate this, it's probably not legal in the EU, and it may not be legal in most of the US in the future either.

Adds are legal, but "selling user data" is more tricky. Many news websites are currently paywalling access to their website unless a monthly fee is paid. As far as I know, there has been no ruling yet whether that is legal.

> Use the browser as a platform to push some product that does make money - a non-Google search engine? A social network? An LLM interface?

Firefox tried to sell a VPN product that way, but it was not priced competitively.