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Frank Hecker
Personal blog · frankhecker.comprogrammingmathscience
Frank Hecker's personal blog at frankhecker.com covers programming, math and science. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Frank Hecker's 2020 posts analysing Mozilla's revenue and its dependence on Google, citing them for figures on income, spending and the share of revenue from Google.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Frank Hecker’s personal website
Most-linked posts?
- /2020/08/15/how-mozilla-makes-money-and-spends-it/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-24
What Hacker News says?
This line is trotted out all the time... but her salary also was going up as revenues and earnings kept going up. From 2005 to 2022 revenues grew more than 10 fold, from 52M$ to 593M$. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation https://frankhecker.com/2020/08/13/mozillas-uncertain-future... In recent years, the proportion coming from Google has also been coming down (even if slowly, from 90+% to just above 80…
Comment linking /2020/08/13/mozillas-uncertain-future/
on “Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy”Submitted Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment as a story · 84 points
HN discussionYou can see how they roughly spend their revenue here [1]. Although it might be out of date now, it does highlight how expensive browser development really is at that scale. [1] https://frankhecker.com/2020/08/15/how-mozilla-makes-money-a...
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on “Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers”Submitted Harvard considered as a long-lived biological organism (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> not financed through ad-tech and tracking (Google) wut? https://frankhecker.com/2020/08/13/mozillas-uncertain-future | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166385 > The Mozilla Corporation’s customers are large corporations like Google that pay for things that will help them make money
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on “Ask HN: Has anyone else gotten the 'Turning Red' ad after Firefox update?”Submitted Blosxom Annotations (2005) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Right now it’s hard to trust that any money I give them would go to a better browser. What can't Firefox do that the better browser can? Mozilla improves Firefox all of the time. Do you think "none" is the amount of a donation that will go towards a better browser? If so, donate $0 of your $10. Is it 10%? If so, donate $1. * https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ I'd like a precise breakdown, too, but I'm not an accoun…
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on “Firefox accounts renamed Mozilla accounts”Submitted Learning how to teleport quantum states with PhysicsGraph as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> 1) Mozilla does have alternate sources of revenue, like Pocket and Mozilla VPN. Not really though. All alternate sources are usually less then 5%. [1] As of 2021, they made 73% of total revenue from Google. [2] Mozilla VPN? You mean the one that refuses to fix CVEs? [3] Yikes. No thanks. 1: https://frankhecker.com/2020/08/15/how-mozilla-makes-money-a... 2: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-inve…
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on “Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor”Submitted I Completed Mathematics for Machine Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netscape Source Code as Netscape Product (1997) as a story · 1 points
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