• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    the internet is ever changing

    We have standard protocols for communication that are system agnostic and simple to implement.

    Claiming you need a subscription to your browser to use the Internet is akin to claiming you need a subscription to your radio to listen to music.

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      3 months ago

      Radio gets revenue from advertisers, just like Firefox gets money from Google. If you cut off that revenue and move the cost to the consumer, then there’s no “one time payment” that could support a radio station indefinitely, so does Firefox.

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        3 months ago

        Radio gets revenue from advertisers, just like Firefox gets money from Google.

        Private For-Profit Radio Stations get revenue from advertisement. But Sony and JBP and Bose aren’t advertisement based. Mozilla isn’t a content provider, its an application developer.

        there’s no “one time payment” that could support a radio station indefinitely

        There’s no “one time payment” that supports radio manufacturers indefinitely, either. So the companies develop new models and improved features, then retail them as replacements to the old device. But I’ve got an old machine from the 1980s that picks up AM/FM just fine. Sony isn’t out of business because it continues to exist.