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title = "How Much Is a Browser Worth?"
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date = 2024-07-03T17:22:01+10:00
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# [extra]
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# updated = 2024-06-04T07:49:36+10:00
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Apparently people are excited about funding independent browser efforts this
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week. I have little interest in funding yet another browser built in C++ in
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2024 but [Servo] is still alive. Since Mozilla refuse to let us directly
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fund Firefox I shall set up a recurring donation to Servo.
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The next question is how much is a web browser worth to me? Based on minutes
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spent using a browser, quite a lot!
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Once upon a time you could pay for Netscape. It seems that [in 1996 Netscape
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3.0 cost US$49][netscape3]. Adjusting for inflation that's US$97 in 2024. Let's
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round that up to an even US$100. At the time of writing [Numbat] tells me
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that's AU$150 or AU$12.50 per month, which seems reasonable.
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Some other services for comparison (I don't actually have an active YouTube
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Premium subscription):
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- Netflix: AU$18.99/m
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- YouTube Premium: AU$16.99/m
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- JetBrains Rust Rover: US$129/y (AU$194, AU$16/m)
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A browser is a least as useful as these, almost certainly more. So, I've set up
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a US$15/m (AU$22.50) recurring sponsorship on GitHub. I encourage you to [do
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the same][sponsor-servo].
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[netscape3]: https://web.archive.org/web/19961115062838/http://merchant.netscape.com/netstore/NAVIGATORS/STANDARD/STANDARD_ITEMS/leaf/product1.html
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[sponsor-servo]: https://github.com/sponsors/servo
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[Servo]: https://servo.org/
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[Numbat]: https://numbat.dev/
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